Retirement Business

Be busy after you retire!

There are two meanings for the word ’Retirement’ in the dictionary:

1. The action or fact of leaving one's job and ceasing to work.

2. The period of one's life after leaving one's job and ceasing to work.

I would add a third meaning to it by saying that ‘retirement’ is the beginning of a new life: A life where your job stops and making your hobby your work begins.

A lot of people think that earning money is ‘done’ when one retires. But, there are others who turn their hobbies and interests into a business and succeed in life all over again. Life after retirement is supposed to be a life of leisure and enjoyment and if one has a business which has their interest in it, then the business thrives on fun and enjoyment too.

There are a lot of such businesses that people can do after they retire. I know people who have taken up Astrology as their home-based business; they read people’s horoscopes and give predictions upon payment. There are people who become freelance writers or ghost writers and earn their living decently after retirement.  They blog on different subjects and earn enough credibility to start it as a business, blogging for others.

If a person has always talked a lot and has had friends swooning over his long speeches and interested in debates, they could think of becoming professional speakers and infuse interest and creativity into their earlier work place. They could go into the industry they have been in and give guest lecture to corporate people.

There are retired people who enjoy food and entertainment and so start a bed and breakfast places or take up franchises of food chains. It not only gives them immense pleasure and satisfaction but also earns them good money making them financially stable.

People, who have always thought of doing some social service and haven’t been able to do so because of their jobs, take the opportunity of their retirement to do so. They start up an old age home, and start other services for older people, like making them computer literate, thus making their ends meet alongside  their mental satisfaction of ‘giving back to the society’.

Retirement is not the end of the world, nor is it a stop to people who still have the enthusiasm to make a living or follow their dreams. A lot of businesses today run successfully, and they are run by retired people.