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Survey work can be done from your home if you have a phone and the internet.
I am talking opinion surveys and not selling products.
Do a search for opinion survey firms and start emailing and as if they have a work from home program. I think this is getting more common.
I volunteered in the 2016 presidential campaign doing internal polling for one of the major candidates. I logged into a program which autodialed registered voters. I really enjoyed talking to a lot of people from all over the country.
That's when I learned two important lessons:
1. The only polls that matter are internal polls because those are the ones that big donors use to decide who gets their money.
2. Mainstream media lies -- they were WAY WAY OFF in predicting who was going to win. No legit polls would be that wrong.
After I retired, I worked a seasonal job where I worked full time in an office for 6 months and then I was free to go play for 6 months. We could then go visit our "kids" who were living at the opposite corner of the country. That was far better than working a few hours a day, every day.
I'll second this. When I was writing a book I searched in vain for a local editor and couldn't find anyone. I turned to one of the freelance websites and found someone who marked her location fairly close by (being local was important to me due to the content of the book). Retired English teacher. I sent her a sample chapter as a trial (paid) and was impressed, so she was hired.
I recall paying something like $500-600 and she turned it around within two days.
Years ago I looked into doing that but the pay seemed to be barely minimum wage. Not many people worked from home then as do now. Had a quick search and there seem to be all sorts of companies with different levels of service and specialties. I'll look into it. Too bad I tossed out my AP Style Book but it's probably out of date now anyway.
I thought about pet sitting, I found it pays like $40 and I think that's lot of time, even if you are in a nice house and sleeping most of the time, for 40 bucks.
OP what are your interests and skills? There are always those surveys that pay, I tried a few and found it incredibly tedious and not for me.
I wish people would put their name to it when they send a message via a rep. The message read professional services charge $100 for overnight pet sitting. I went on Rover.com and hooked up with a pet sitter, the total cost to me was like $45/night and Rover obviously got some of that. So that left under $40 for the pet sitter. I tipped him $20 and obviously I could have just hired him and cut out Rover. But that's not the right thing to do, I found him via Rover so they should be compensated.
Sorry to get off track, just setting the record straight for what I paid in Maryland which is a high COL state and what the pet sitter receives.
Too bad I tossed out my AP Style Book but it's probably out of date now anyway.
Style Book? No longer needed! Going by the rampant misuse of punctuation and horrific grammar & spelling prevalent nowadays, just give written work a quick scan and call it good. And make sure the writing is peppered with abbreviations that have to be Googled for translations - keeps the reader on their toes.
Just jokin'...
As far as transporting elders as mentioned above, this was discussed in another thread somewhere. While on paper it sounds like a much needed and good idea (and it is) the reality is there's an issue of liability and problems one might face if something goes wrong, like if you get into a car crash or a senior has a medical incident while in your care. I don't think a senior center is just going to hand off elders to a stranger with a car to go run errands around town.
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