WAH Jobs & Freelance Gigs
This Is Just a Quick List To Get You Started.
Reminder: If you are really struggling with any of these and need someone to brainstorm with or just figure out what you want to do both now well into retirement: Book a Spot with Me. The first 30 minutes are FREE. Gigs, Freelancing, Side Hustles, Think-Out-Side-The-Box Jobs (Remember the Penguin Lady?!). Let’s do this!
There are many more things that you could do, but this will get you started. Many of these I have written about here or at another site (WAH Adventures, RealWaysToEarnMoneyOnline, or ExtraCashandRewards) or even as a ghostwriter at other blogs:
Actor
Affiliate Marketing
Animal Boarding Specialist
Animal Breeder
Animal Trainer
Answering Service (online or offline)
Antique Appraisal
Apps Developer – (Product Hunt)
Artist – (Handmade by Amazon)
Blogger – (Upwork)
Bookkeeper – (SkipTheDrive)
Book Review – (How To Become a Paid Book Reviewer)
Car Detailer
Caregiver – (SitterCity)
Cartoonist
Caterer
Choreographer
Cleaning Service
Clothing Maker/Designer – (StitchFix), (Spring)
Clown
Coach – (Different Types of Coaching)
Coder – (Upwork)
Consultant – (Maven.co)
Craft Licensing (patterns for sewing, knitting, woodworking)
Crafter – (10 Sites To Sell Your Crafts)
Customer Service Agent – (23 Call Centers)
Dancer
Delivery Service – (Amazon Flex)
Direct Sales – (Avon, Cabi, Thirty-One)
Dog Groomer – (5 Sites To Walk or Sit Pets)
Dog Sitter
Dog Walker – (Rover)
Driving Service (Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar)
eBay Business – (5 Alternatives to eBay)
Editing – (Upwork)
Employment Agency
Entertainer
Errand Running Service
Event Organizer/Planner
Family Relationships Developer
Fashion Designer
Fiction Writer (freelance)
Financial Planner
Fitness Consulting or Developer
Flea Market Vendor
Floral Therapist
Florist
Food Delivery – (Uber Eats)
Food Truck Vendor or Manager (to others)
Gardener (professional)
Genealogy Navigation Specialist
Graphic Design – (99 Designs, Authentic Jobs, Krop, Smashing Jobs, Upwork)
Grocery Deliveries – (Instacart) (Shipt)
Handyman Services – (Repair Cafe)
Home Stager – (How To Article)
Hospitality Specialist – (Welcome Wagon)
House Sitter
Housekeeping
Instructor (Fitness, Martial Arts)
Insurance Agent – (Virtual and Flexible at this Center)
Internet Research Specialist
Inventor (see also Purposefully Cool Jobs)
Junk Mail Curator – (SBKC)
Matchmaking Services
Meal Delivery – (Uber Eats)
Meal Planning
Mediator
Medical Billing Specialist – (VirtualVocations)
Memoir Author
Mermaid (Professional)
Moving Company
Music Teacher
Musician or Singer
Mystery Shopper – (GigWalk), (GapBuster), (Mobee)
Nanny – (SitterCity)
Notary – (At Your Service Mobile Notary)
Nurses (Advice) – (Work From Home Jobs For Nurses)
Online Jurist – (e-Jury)
Online Referral Agency (like Angie’s List or Home Advisor)
Online Store Owner
Party Planner
Pastry Designer
Patient Advocate – (FireGang)
Personal Line Waiter/Sitter
Personal Organizer (How To Article)
Personal Work Watcher & Accountability Partner
Photographer – (ShutterStock)
Photojournalist
Product/Service Reviewer
Professional Nag
Proofreader – (Proofreading Services)
Property Manager (or Landlord/Renter) – (Airbnb)
Puppeteer
Referral Agency (home improvement, employment, etc.)
Rent Out Your Stuff (cars, RVs, clothes, tools)
Repair Person (Cars, appliances, clothes alterations, broken pottery, antique clocks/watches, appliances)
Restoration Specialist – (Repair Cafe Model)
Resume Writer (Freelance) – (Talent, Inc.)
Sales Professional – (FreeeUp)
Scoring and Grading Professional – (Five Ways to Work at Home Scoring Tests)
Seamstress or Tailor – (Stitchfix)
Senior Moving Consultant
SEO Evaluator (Appen, Lionbridge), (Testbirds)
Singer
Social Media Consultant – (Crisp Thinking)
Survey Taker- (Mindswarms, YouGov) (Panel Polls) (PaidViewPoint)
T-Shirt, Hoodie and Product Design – (Spring, Redbubble, Teepublic, and Zazzle)
Teaching – (GoGoKid)
Technical Agent or Assistance (Replenish PDX)
Telemarketer – (23 Call Centers)
Tour Guide
Transcriptionist (TFE, Transcription Divas)(Cambridge, Daily Transcription, StenTel, Tigerfish, Ubiqus)
Translating – (VirtualVocations)
Travel writer (Freelance Jobs For Retirees)
Trip planner
Tutor (online of offline) – (TutorABC, Cambly)
Vacation or Travel Companion
Ventriloquist
Videographer/Photographer – (Freelance Jobs For Retirees)
Virtual Assistant – (VickyVirtual.com, Byron Assistants, 21DaystoVABiz) (Equivity)
Virtual Tour Guide – (Vayable)
Voice-Over Artist – (How To Article)
Web Developer – (5 Places to Find Graphic Design Work)
Web Designer – (5 Places to Find Graphic Design Work)
Webmaster or IT Consultant – (5 Places to Find Graphic Design Work)
Woodworking
Writer – (HubStaff Talent, HireMyMom, HotGhostWriter), (Tempesta)
What Is Missing From This List?
I guess the real question here is “who” is missing from this list? You! There are what I call “standard” freelance careers and then there are some really the “out there” where you get as wild and crazy as you want.
So, How Many of These Did You Come Up With?
This is just a 10-minute “brain dump” on my behalf. I have a list that I have been adding to for years, which is probably about six times longer than this list. However, I am sure you can find something of interest to do or even add something to this list. You may even have some of these on your own bucket list.
Realize This…
Even within each category, there are many options such as writer. There is copywriting, article writing, resume writing. Fiction. Non-fiction.
There are also ways to combine interests, such as a dog walker and a travel writer. Combine these two, and you could become an international dog walker traveling the world, writing about tourist attractions and walking dogs and making money with that too. Not to mention writing about the best dog parks—internationally speaking!
Don’t Forget Your Enforcers
Those of you who have coached with me know how I am always getting on the bandwagon about using work-at-home jobs as enforcers. There are so many work-at-home jobs offering many of these, which will get you up and running while you learn a little more about marketing. There are other reasons to get those enforcers set up and running, but that is certainly one of the eight reasons.
Even though I would much rather see you in your own business cherry picking your own clients making the money you want (yeah, it can still happen!), sometimes enforcers can get you out of your own way and at least get up and running!
Remember Search Engines
They are one your best friends when it comes to researching. Just make sure that you use them—or learn to use them—to your full advantage.
In the Future…
Many of these categories—not all of them—will be discussed on this blog or in upcoming workshops or in one-on-one coaching sessions. Make sure that if you are still trying to reinvent you work and need help that you reach out.
Just give me a shout. Always here to be of service and guide you into finding what fits your reinvention and your after 50+ life while still honoring your true purpose and calling.
You can also create your own purposefully cool job too. Again, it’s all about reinvention! Hey, we are 50+ and deserve to make it happen.
So, What Are Some of The Other Freelance Sites With Jobs on Them?
Okay, again! Quick brain dump. Here you go:
PowerToFly.com – See my review
RetiredBrains.com – See 15 Websites
SkipTheDrive.com – See my review
VirtualVocations.com – See my review
WorkForce50.com – See 15 Websites
As always, do your homework as well. You can google reviews for each site as well as check out Glassdoor, SiteJabber, and Indeed reviews. Also, sign up for the many WAH (work-at-home) sites where I am always guest posting. Many of them are already posted on this website or in my newsletter. (You did sign up for it, didn’t you?)
Let me also give you a bit of homework here. If you google my name with the freelance careers listed above, you will find that there are sites that I have written about such as Rover or DoggyVacay. I have also written about how to find private clients and get up and running. Have a little fun with Google and my name (Leisa Good), and see what you find.
As always, I am here to be of service to you.