Thread: Any work is good work

No matter how we piss and moan, that does not fill the spirit nor put food on the table. Find something to do. And no matter how hard we try sometimes nothing will work for a period of time. But..from my experiences, there is a time when something again does work.

Many jobs requiring knowledge and skilled jobs and semi skilled jobs are going begging around the country. Few persons nowadays can use their hands and brains to accomplish something. There are a lot of small contractors that need occasional help in their field of work. The CNC shop that occasionally does my products has about three retirees that were machinists and good at what they do work part time. A local contractor has retirees doing the supervising and light work..all part time. The paint stores, hardware's, and lumberyards have at least one retiree working full or part time. Accounting help is often needed by the small contractors and stores.
Plan now for then! Pix has the answer! Do something! If I hadn't I would have gone nuttier than I r now.

I guess that I was lucky! Worked from the time I was nine and store clerked at 12 and was a butcher at 14, etc. I learned few skills in service. I was downsized many times, moved around a lot and was able to survive. Worked in Pizza joints, Janitored, and worked a lot of "Temporary Agency" fill-in jobs while finding a "real job". The agency jobs often got me hired from the agency when the employer found I could do the job they wanted done. This has also worked for more than one person I know. Some folks like the change of venue enough they stay with the Temps'. I have gutted houses and buildings with demolition crews. I've worked on assembly lines. I've cleaned out homes for the Estate Sales or for sale. Some of the local auction houses have temp jobs for putting together the auctions. There are now local on-line auctions that need full and part time help at over min. wage. There are dealers that want stuff refurbish or cleaned on a piece by piece basis. That has brought in cash. My neighbor, after retirement, became a maintenance man for a nice golf course and gets his link time free.

I retired ten years ago to a tiny house in a small town. I had paid off my home and a fairly new vehicle bought from a car rental agency. That made the bills as monthly expenses which I could regulate by my spending's. I had accumulated a shop of tools and knew how to use them. I was lucky, as are some others, to have had a hobby that turned into an income that helped a lot after retirement. Still I am one of the very few that could live within the SS Benefits: (The new word for the shafting) as though we didn't pay in and it is now considered a Gov't gift! I paid in for 45+ years.

Again, Pix has the answer, If you can find something to do, do it! A class at the local vocational school or college. Sr's are almost free, and I was hired part time by the college to do maintenance and fill in for shop supervisors when they were indisposed. Volunteering at a facility and listening to older geezers put their history together, can be uplifting. Crossing guard at a local school can be rewarding and..it get your butt out of the house!

This is just my point of view, your location and horizons are different than mine. But...look toward, and move toward those horizons!

Good living to you all!
~Richard