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5 Career Tips After Retirement

Each one of you must have planned your life and savings after retirement. But is retiring plan with respect to finances the only thing needed? What about life after retirement? You must have planned a long vacation, but how long are you going to just holiday?

For someone who has worked almost all his/her life, no work after retirement could be boring. Career after retirement is also equally important and should be given a lot of thoughts.

5 Career Tips After Retirement

In this article, we shall discuss some careers after retirement that can be opted for by any retired personnel irrespective of their field. These are few options you can try after your retirement:

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Lecturer - Being a lecturer or professor related to your profession is a good career after retirement. You can use this option and work after retirement as well. Lectureship needs your knowledge to be shared which you have gained with all the work experience you have had in your life. Career after retirement does not need to be something which takes a lot of time and hard work. A couple of lectures a day or some guest lectures in a week can also be a good career after retirement.

Writing Books- If you know you have struggled a lot in your life and your life experiences are worth sharing, you must consider writing as a career after retirement. Writing books is good for people who want to express themselves and are good in expressing their feelings. Therefore, writing books can be adopted as a good career after retirement option which you can think of from now on itself.

Consultation - Consulting is a good work after retirement. You can give your services to people in your field who need help with some troubleshooting. Consulting is one field where you will also be paid really well. Consultation is a good business for people who are retired as it does not need field work or hectic scheduling. A job which gives you all the benefits of retirement along with good career is consulting.

Social Service - When all your worldly passions and wishes are over, helping the needy ones could be a good career after retirement. You can try doing social services such as helping in an NGO, assisting in the empowerment of women and children or creating awareness of environmental problems and hazards. This is a job that would give you a lot of satisfaction. Many people opt for this career after retirement. This is a great opportunity to work for the society after working for yourself all life.

Home-based jobs - There are many home-based jobs like marketing of products, small scale catering and such other small scale business which will help in making a career after retirement as well as some money too. Small scale business might also include farming if you have some piece of land.

Story first published: Saturday, April 26, 2014, 14:09 [IST]
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