| Retirement planning is on the top of the list for | | | | day. Some one that has spent a major portion of |
| many people getting up closer to the age of | | | | his or her life working as an appliance repair |
| retirement. Older people are busy checking into | | | | technician, can start a small home based service |
| their 401K contributions, IRA balances, insurance | | | | giving advice on the telephone about small repairs |
| benefits, social security benefits and so on, | | | | that people can do themselves to restore their |
| because people are worried about meeting their | | | | appliances to working order. |
| expenses during their golden years from the | | | | If you have the skills of public speaking and you |
| money that they have saved during their active | | | | have had significant management experience, then |
| productive younger years. However, your | | | | you could hold occasional seminars teaching small |
| retirement years do not have to be completely | | | | business owners about good business practices |
| financially unproductive. In this article, we will | | | | and charge a small fee. Freelance photography for |
| explore some of the things you can do to make | | | | local businesses and newspapers is another way |
| those retirement years financially productive by | | | | of earning additional income. I know of a machinist |
| bringing in some supplemental income. | | | | that decided to make hand-made knives of very |
| Supplemental income in your retirement years can | | | | high quality that he sells as collectors items for |
| be had by freelance writing about what you have | | | | about seven hundred dollars each. He sells about |
| learnt through the years in your active productive | | | | two of these items a month which brings him a |
| life either for specific companies or for magazines. | | | | decent amount of supplemental income regularly. |
| For example, if you had worked for an insurance | | | | Essentially, what is advocated here is the fact |
| company for forty years then may be you could | | | | that you can put to good use what you have |
| write articles for the sales department of small | | | | learnt over the several decades of your active |
| insurance agencies for a small fee. If you were a | | | | productive life and let it bring you some |
| teacher in a high school, you could start a small | | | | supplemental income during your retirement years. |
| tutoring service running for a few hours every | | | | |