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Re: Are you looking for a part-time job?
posted at February 6, 2012 3:51 PM EST
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I unfortunaely will say that due to very poor planning with both my husband and myself to blame we find ourselves in a very bad place finanically. I guess it all started when I was diagnosed with an operable brain tumor that has left my memory compromised resulting in an inability to return to my profession as a R.N. Spending on the premises of a two fold salary(my husband had worked for the N.Y.C.P.D. as a detective and retired just before moving to Virginia in 1990, therafter working for the Henrico Couty Sheriffs Department) we just proceded to get deeper and deeper in debt, yet now at the age of 74 and 71 respectably we are forced to persue employment and to take whatever is open to two otherwise healthy seniors who are willing to be trained in whatever endeavor is open to us, is it possible that we may still seek gainful employment? |
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Re: Are you looking for a part-time job?
posted at February 6, 2012 6:05 PM EST
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Here's an idea for those looking for part time work and self employment.......I know people who use SKYPE and conduct English language teaching for overseas Japanese students. It's their own business, however there might be companies that would hire you to do this. The Chinese are EAGER to learn English! Feel free to message me back if you want more info or ideas. PS: I am not retired, but I am 62 and just started my own "encore career" business in 2011. Online Teaching and Tutoring As the popularity of the internet increases, more individuals turn to online resources in order to gather the information that they need. Whether it be for a high school project or a college final essay, students will inevitably turn to the internet if they ever need to conduct any type of research or acquire any help with their work. Becoming an online teacher or tutor is an extremely popular job choice for retirees. You will be able to provide your expertise on a specific subject, meanwhile assist an individual to complete their school task at hand. |
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Re: Are you looking for a part-time job?
posted at February 6, 2012 10:48 PM EST
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In Response to Re: Are you looking for a part-time job?: Has anyone did a hobby and turned it into selling items? Posted by edogmom Yes I have turned my hobby of bag making into a selling item privately. You can make a nice cash flow. |
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Re: Are you looking for a part-time job?
posted at February 10, 2012 11:55 PM EST
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In Response to Re: Are you looking for a part-time job?: In Response to Re: Are you looking for a part-time job? : I hear your pain and I'm sure there are a lot of others on here who have their own experiences with veiled discriminatory practices! But what I found was that I could continue to beat myself up because job searching wasn't going anywhere or I could take what was happening and turn it around for myself and a lot of other folks. I have a home based business and I am always looking for talent to partner up with. I especially enjoy working with the more mature person and love helping others earn the level of income they are seeking. Feel free to contact me if you would like to take a look at what I am doing. You never know, it just might be the thing you have been looking for! Posted by mrslabel I am looking for a job to do at home. My husband had a 5 bypass surgery in 2008 and from complications is partially and other disabilities. I've been laid off my job for 1 1/2 now and unemployment ran out at the end of December 2011. Thank you. My email is jendraske53@gmail.com |
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Re: Are you looking for a part-time job?
posted at February 11, 2012 2:24 AM EST
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I worked for 40 years in Medical and dental offices as a receptionist/Office Manager. I have applied for many, many jobs and never hear back from any of them. We are older, but we have lots of experience and could use a little extra money. Why not at least get back to us as a courtesy. I am so frustrated!!! |
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Re: Are you looking for a part-time job?
posted at February 12, 2012 3:36 PM EST
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No one wants you at 81, even though I have 50 yrs. of office experience and would like just one or two days a week to supplement my Soc. Sec. income only? Very depressing as I am blessed to be in good health but have no money to even go out to lunch. Are there any other seniors my age that feel the same way? |
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Re: Are you looking for a part-time job?
posted at February 12, 2012 7:13 PM EST
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In Response to Are you looking for a part-time job?: 5 More Great Part-time Jobs for Retirees suggests working as a blogger, coach, teacher’s aid, tour guide or at a convention center. Have you ever worked at one of these types of jobs? If not, which part-time job have you found helps you bring in a little extra income? Posted by AARPMiller I word work as a blogger. I trying to start my own business in Customer Follow-up System. It is a slow process but worth it. Customer Service is not a priority. People say they do it in house but they don't. With the lack of business one would thing that they would make comtact with returning customers! its like they don't have TIME. I have the TIME. |
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Re: Are you looking for a part-time job?
posted at February 15, 2012 5:20 PM EST
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hello: I think that I would like to be a part-time drug dealer in my neighborhood, hang out in school yards, and pick them up after school. I would definitely like to involve them in the use of drugs, and also get some of the younger ones to be couriers. So that's what I like to do in my elderly years, for part-time work. Because, there doesn't seem to be other work in Oregon. Most of the time we have lots of drugs, lots of crime, murders rape and monstrous amounts of burglaries and theft. That's Oregon. And when you are in Portland, you have added drug gangs, lots of violence, actions against police constantly, and protests, and one Christmas we even had Muslim terrorists tried to blow up a huge Christmas tree celebration where there were lots of kids and families. So you understand when you're in Oregon, and there's absolutely no industry, no business,and crime everywhere, and when people go to work in the morning (there is only civil service work, because anybody who has money works for the government) they throw their beer cans out the window. Somebody here said that Portland was great, but it was very expensive. All of Oregon is expensive. If you go to Oregon, every single thing you do, every minute of the day you have to pay a fee for it. Anything you do at a beach, or even going to a beach you get charged money for. You cannot breathe in Oregon without paying a fee or tax. It's just like back east, you get charged a fee for anything you do, anywhere you go. If you go to a state park, you get charged a fee, you get charged a fee to go to the beach, or if you fish, go for a boat ride,:go swimming, you name it. Here, in Oregon everyone is charged money for every single thing they do. So if you're trying to retire here, you better have an enormous amounts of money. Forget about taking classes or going to a senior center for free they charge lots of money for all of that. Yes, senior centers now charge a lot of money for retirees just to go to them. Any time you want to take any classes, forget about it it cost a lot of go. The community colleges are stuffed full of people trying to get trained for other jobs, because they're out of work, so for retiree to get into community college is extremely difficult. There was a young man in Eugene Oregon, in Lane County, who put a small motor on his bicycle to power it, and he was caught by the police, and told he had to get a license for motorcycle or car for it. That's how strict they are. And, in Eugene Oregon at Lane County, they're going to put in a huge expensive bus system that the county can't afford or keep up, call the EMX bus system. They will be tearing out everyone's front yards, miles and miles of trees, everybody's private property, and they'll destroy whole neighborhoods with it, digging everything up to put it in. Not only that, it will take all the cars off the road, because it will take over all the car roads and highways. So if you're trying to commute, forget it, you're going to be forced to take the EMX whether you want to or not. If you're thinking traffic jams, yes even worse than we have now. The reason Oregon and so screwed up, and corrupt, is that we have a Democrat and extremely liberal government and political system. Because of that, we have very little capitalism left, and no business or industry or jobs. We do have a huge amount of large corporations doing clearcutting of all the trees and forests. Unfortunately, none of the people in Oregon get any jobs out of it, because all the logs are exported directly to other countries. Oregon loses all its jobs in processing it into lumber. So we are being treated as a "Third World country", having all of our trees cut, so that the earth goes through massive erosion, causing more more floods, because there are no trees or plant life left to hold water in. Oregon is always famous for the lumber industry, but now is famous for getting all the trees cut away, and practically given away for a few cents on the dollar, to foreign countries. And nobody makes money or jobs also lumber industry here anymore as a result.most of the environmentalists here have not been able to do anything about this. Oregon is getting raped, to be blunt. The other reason it's a good idea not to retire here, is because most of California and New York City has already moved here. That is why all the prices have all gone up, all the food is expensive, all the rental housing prices enormous now, and yet all the land values of the real estate have gone way down. However, the taxes on real estate and houses have gone up. The only reason I'm living here, is I can't afford to live in California, and the old house of my family is here, so I have this one place to live. I can't move to another state and sell this. Nobody here can sell their houses. Also, a great many people are losing their homes to mortgage forecloses. And we have some of the largest number of homeless people living here, of any state. Keep that in mind. Eugene Oregon and Lane., County have huge traffic jams, and huge freeways that go everywhere, and caused enormous amount of wrecks and crashes. Some experienced realtor told us that we were turning into Detroit, as all business was leaving and we had massive traffic and smog everywhere. Like I said, I'm only living here because the house is stuck here, I can't sell it and go somewhere else. Yes, I've never seen so much smog from on road traffic in my life, except in Southern California in Los Angeles! Oh yes, a lot of people from Los Angeles also have moved here. You won't be able to find a native of Oregon, 4 million years. Everybody here is from California are New York City or some other state. We have Canadians. Portland Oregon has become a mecca of kids with trust funds, their utopian minded liberals from New York City, and tons of Californians. It's a little bit like Berkeley California, but they will move here because it's way too enormously expensive in California now. So everyone have come here to make Oregon overly expensive and all the food high-priced as well as all the housing. In other words, they just brought all of California and New York City to Oregon. So if you're looking to get away from stress, traffic, smog, crime, illegal immigrants, burglary, murder, drug crime and drug trafficking, please don't come to Oregon or Portland. Eugene Oregon is especially bad for methamphetamines, and you see people downtown all the time, in broad daylight, tweaking out. I'm not joking.I really hate to see what has happened to my native state, since I've been away somewhere else, try to make a living. Because in Oregon, nobody could ever make a living or get a job. Well, it's actually gotten worse here for that, because now there's no lumber industry or anything attached to it.  .it's pathetic. I suppose all you people who are going to the southern states to retire, have the right idea. I wish I could join you. But I can't get rid of the house I'm living in, because we can't sell any of our real estate here. Anyhow, I just wanted to give you an idea of what Oregon is like, to retire in; it's pretty much like retiring in New York City or expensive areas of California. And it's beginning to look exactly the same as Los Angeles. Thanks! ....
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Re: Are you looking for a part-time job?
posted at February 15, 2012 5:41 PM EST
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You guys who do handy work, or maintenance need to go list yourselves on Craig's list.That's one place.You might have to pay a fee,but everyone goes there for handymen,and maintenace,and lots of places need landscaping, weed, lawn cutting, ect. List in craig's list,and also "angie's list", which is expensive,but you might get started on craig's list.Also, answer some of the ads there, asking for help. In the Pacific Northwest, is "Pacific Northwest Seniors and Boomer newspaper,"which is a give away newspaper for seniors. Also go to big supermarkets that have bulletin boards,and will let you put up ads to find people who want this work. Ditto for any senior centers, recreation centers with bulletin boards. Ditto for colleges that have bulletin boards all over. Every time I go to "Sally's beauty supplies," there is a sign in the window. asking for sales help. You must know that the brunt of the economic depression and loss of jobs, definitely fell mostly on older workers. All the companies have gotten rid of their middle-age workers, because they pay them a lot of money, and now they are all being fired and young people are put in who cost them less money. I even saw one friend of ours, who made at least $100,000 a year, for working on computers, complex computer work, get fired and replaced by a very young person who didn't know anything because the young person was so much cheaper. And this was a big legal firm! So you're right, there is a ton of age discrimination in firing, and all the fired people are older not younger. So you might keep that in mind when looking for work. A lot of the companies you're applying to have already fired all their older workers. You probably have to find some way to figure out which employers and companies and areas of work, are more likely to hire older people, and already have older people working for them. Anybody with tons of young people, is not going to hire you. In Response to Re: Are you looking for a part-time job?: James Nord: I'am looking for part time or full tlme work as a handyman or a maintenance person day or night Posted by jamesnord |
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