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Would you like to wake up with enthusiasm every day and leap out of bed knowing your dream retirement job awaits you? Think of the hours you currently snatch for enjoying the things you love? In retirement, you can turn this passion in to profit.

What’s your dream? Do you have a passion or hobby only pursue a few hours a week? If you’re a baby boomer getting ready for retirement, chances are you’re still going to be working at something, whether it’s out of pleasure or financial necessity, so why not make a midlife career change by combining your dreams and passions into a fulfilling retirement job?

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You’ve earned an enjoyable retirement but can you afford it? If you can’t enjoy life when you retire, when will you? Studies show that those who work in a job that they enjoy are healthier and experience fewer stress related illnesses. When you’re a baby boomer, it’s very important to stay healthy and avoid stress!

Think of the people you do business with. Don’t you value those who are passionate and excited about their business? Wouldn’t you rather do business with someone who truly enjoys what they are doing? Your retirement job can be something YOU are passionate about – making money is just the extra icing on the cake.

How to Create a “Retirement Job” from Your Dreams and Passions

Get a notebook to take a personal assessment of your interests, abilities and passions. Start by making some lists of:

1. Your interests – do you love travel or photography? How about writing or model trains? Do you love hiking and the outdoors? Write it down.

2. Your abilities and strong points – Are you an organizer? Can you write? Can you teach others? Are you patient or do you like things to move quickly?

3. Your experience – write down everything you can think of. Did you help build a Habitat for Humanity house when you were 18? Have you ever volunteered? Maybe you love Golden Retrievers and you’ve read dozens of books about them.

4. How do you currently spend your time when you aren’t working? Which of these things makes you feel happy, inspired, joyful? Think about times in your life when you truly felt passionate. Is there a common thread in your memories? Were you learning, teaching, risk taking, helping others, having fun, problem solving?

5. When we are children we are the closest to our true nature. What things did you love as a child? (I know it was long ago, but bear with me?)

6. Do you have a secret dream job? A job you never really thought you could pursue? How would it make you feel if you could make your living doing that job?

What Kind of Retirement Job Do You Want? What are Your Goals?

What is your ideal job? Dream big here. If you’d like to make $2,000 a month working 20 hours a week, write that down. If you’d like to earn and travel so you need a mobile career, write that down too. Really define what you see as the perfect retirement income. It’s a known fact that those who write down their goals are more likely to achieve them.

By now you should begin to get a sense of what type of retirement job you can feel passionate about. Next spend some time researching your interests on the Internet. What are others doing in this area? Are there blogs and websites out there about it?

The way passionate people make money from their passion is to share what they know with others. If you have expertise, others will pay to know what you know. What have you learned about your hobby that other people would like to know? You can help others avoid the learning curve you had and become an expert like you!

Let’s say you love model trains. Not only do you love model trains, you’re crazy about them. You’ve built some models, you attend model train shows when you can, maybe you’re a member of a model train group (or you’d like to have time for that.)

Here are some possible ways to make money in a retirement job using our model train example.

Build a Website or Blog to Create Retirement Income

1. Build a website with model train information on it. Include how-to articles like where to find hard to find model parts. Include an events calendar. Interview some other enthusiasts about their tips for model train building. You’re the expert, what did you read about to learn about model trains?

Once your website or blog is up and running, you can monetize it by putting up Google adsense or model train affiliate ads.

2. If you’d like to include travel and photography in your business, take trips to model train events, interview people and take photos. Lots of tax write offs here for your travel expenses, your camera, your computer, even model train books and magazines.

3. If you decide to build a blog to make money with your passion, look into The Niche Blogger give you step by step instructions to achieve your goal.

Teach Others about Your Passion - Give Classes on Model Trains and Model Train Building

1. Contact your local senior or community center or community college. Ask them about teaching some model train classes on the subjects of your choosing.

Write a Book or Ebook

Share your expertise with others by writing an ebook and marketing it on your blog or website or through your model train community.

If you’re not quite ready for that midlife career change or retirement job, this is the perfect time to begin finding a way to pursue what you’re passionate about right now. By doing your personal assessment and looking for ways to profit form your passion, you’re inviting ideas into your consciousness to help direct you.

There is a saying “Do what you love and the rest will follow?” Live your passion and be joyful in your retirement pursuits and creative ideas will begin flowing. You’ll suddenly find your life filled with others who share your passion, others with ideas and helpful information.

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