Retiring should be a time of relaxation, a time to spend your days doing all the things you never had chance to do before.
A time of dignified and graceful living.
It can be working in your garden, making it look like you never could before, planting new plants and spending time on the lawn.
It could be visiting places you have never seen or wish to re-visit.
Spending time with friends and grandchildren, even babysitting for your family.
But, these days retirement is not always like that.
Your pension doesn't cover your outgoings.
You may have to consider selling your home just to pay ongoing bills.
Keeping warm and well fed can start being a problem, so where to find extra money becomes an important part of your life.
For those who are able to carry on working there are various options.
Either their employers will let them stay on full or part time.
Or they can find new part time jobs, hopefully in an area of work that they feel comfortable in.
Or maybe they can start looking at online opportunities.
If you are in the above category then there is a vast array of online work to be found.
But this is where you have to be careful.
There are many opportunities that promise riches, but few that deliver, and if they do then only a handful of people will collect.
The answer is to research properly what you are interested in doing and not to just jump on the first opportunity that you find.
Maybe join some online marketing forums to see what other people are working at.
Ask questions and see where you can use your already acquired skills.
Look into the business and see what is needed to make it work.
Online business is no different from offline.
You cannot succeed unless you know what you are doing, have enough capital to at least get the business off the ground and have the required skills to run it.
This is where training comes in and the time to take that on.
So for the retired person the opportunity is there to give the time to learn what is needed to make an online business work.
So look for an opportunity that offers you all the training you will need and the advice that will help you make the most of your new business so that you can truly retire gracefully.