I love my job. I log in to my computer in the quiet predawn from my comfy couch with a steaming mug of black coffee and get to work tout de suite.Working remotely is not new, but it’s steadily gaining a head of steam for workers of all ages. Over the last five years U.S. workers working remotely grew 44% to around 4.7 million, according to research by job board Flexjobs.com in partnership with Global Workplace Analytics.
For older workers working remotely can be a sweet solution to staying on the job. As I wrote in this column, a recent LIMRA Secure Retirement Institute surveyed recent retirees and preretirees who’ve retired within the past two years or plan to retire in the next two years and had at least $100,000 in assets. Among the preretirees, 27% said they plan to work part-time in retirement and 17% said they expect to gradually reduce their hours before stopping work entirely.
The remote workers over 50 who I know have all told me that it takes discipline, but the time flexibility to do things with grandchildren, nonwork hobbies, volunteering, or simply the joy of working with their dog nestled under their desk, is what makes it work. Do you thrive off of the stimulation of office colleagues buzzing around you? One of the biggest hurdles for remote workers is loneliness. “If it’s going to be a real con for you, and you can feel it in your gut that it will be hard for you not to have that interaction and action environment, than don’t consider remote work,” Sutton advised. “Part-time or a flexible schedule might be better.”
You might go straight to a company you would like to work for, maybe it’s even your current employer, and see if it hires remote workers. A good place to start is the career section of the company’s website. Job titles range from customer service representative to program manager to teacher, accounting , admin assistants, virtual assistants, medical transcriptionist, remote nurses, pharmacists, radiologists, data entry. Pay ranges from $18/hr. to $40/hr. or more, depending on the level of the job and the experience.
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