17 Jobs That Want You BECAUSE You're Over 50

If you're over 50 and looking for work, you've probably thought this. They're going to take one look at me and hire the 28-year-old. And in a lot of jobs, you'd be right. But these are the jobs that want you because you're over 50, where the 28-year-old is the one who doesn't get the call. In these jobs, the thing the company is buying is your years. And in many of these cases, the people doing these jobs right now are older as well. For instance, the average insurance agent in America is already 59 years old. And I spent almost 10 years helping people find the right job. And a lot of them were over 50 years old, like Brian. And who we helped land a digital marketing job at 59. That's right, even digital marketing. And the ones who did the best stopped apologizing for their age and they went where it actually counted. So whether you were laid off, you retired and got bored, or you just need the money, there's a job in here that wants exactly what you've got. Now, every job in this video is gonna have proof on the screen as well as resources. And if you appreciate me making this type of content, you want me to make more of it in the future, then let me know by gently cheering that like button and let's jump into it right now. Okay, so let's start with a weird one. Now, if you've watched me before, you know that I like to open these videos with one that makes you go, wait, what? And this is going to be an end of life doula, otherwise known as a death doula. So when somebody is dying, the family hires you to sit with them. You hold a hand. You put a cool washcloth on a forehead. You plan the last week. A death doula named Alua Arthur. One video about her job, for instance, has been watched over 800,000 times. Now, here's why they want you. Nobody takes death advice from a 26 year old. The family hiring you is 55 planning their mom's last month. They want somebody who's already sat in that room. Now, the University of Vermont runs the big training, and the instructor says who shows up. Retired physicians, teachers, lawyers, corporate types, no experience required. Now, you might be thinking, Shane, isn't this volunteer work? Well, a lot of it is, but the paid ones charge real money. One doula in Cleveland posts her rate, which is $110 an hour, $1,300 for five days at the bedside, and no license. The training is $895 online, eight weeks long. So here's how to start. Take the Vermont course or the INELDA course. Then tell every hospice in your county that you exist. All right, so the next one is gross, and it is a hearing instrument specialist. This is where you look into more ear canals in a week than you ever wanted to see. But it is a very useful and very necessary job. So a working specialist says who's in the chair. The majority of my patients range from 55 to 85. Now put yourself in that chair. You're 71, about to spend a few thousand dollars on two tiny computers for your ears. Who do you trust? A 24-year-old or somebody who looks like he's got a pair in the drawer at home? And they'll train you as well. Lucid Hearing shows paid apprentice, hearing instrument specialist trainee, $20 to $22 an hour while you train. They sponsor your license. Their posting says $50,000 once you're licensed. Now, you might be thinking, well, this needs a medical degree. No, in Texas, it's a high school diploma, a $205 permit, and a licensed supervisor for a year. Median pay is about $65,000 plus commission. And here's how to start. Search hearing instrument specialist trainee and ask one question in the interview. Who's my licensed supervisor? And this is exactly why one of our community members, Guy, gets paid. He's over 50. He's got tinnitus, which is constant ringing in the ears. And he teaches people how to live with it better on camera. He has a YouTube channel and a personal brand that we helped him make. And when barely 446 people were following him, he started making $1,500 a month. And that was great because his goal before joining my community was to make $1,000 to $2,000. So, he hit his goal with less than 500 subscribers. My own brother did the exact same thing at 50, $18,000 in a single month, and I'll tell you his story. And if you want the exact steps that we used with both of them, I'm actually doing a completely new one-time event live training on growing and making money with YouTube. And I'll be answering your questions before, during, and after. I'll also be helping you pick your niche if you're interested in actually choosing a niche. And if you already have a niche, I'll help you make it 10 times better. Plus, I'll usually stay an extra hour after just to make sure every single question gets answered. Plus, everyone who attends gets a brand new AI tool that we designed to help you pick your niche and get your YouTube channel started. And all you got to do is just talk to the tool. So click the first link in the description, the pin comment below to register. And once you register, make sure you save it to your calendar so you won't miss it. And I'll see you there. And that brings me to the next one on the list, which is teach what you already know. And the way that I recommend doing it is literally just recording yourself and posting videos online. So there is a new economy now. It used to be that you'd have to apply to a job and then maybe you got accepted to it. And there's still a lot of those types of jobs as well. But there's another type of job out there where you don't really have to apply to it. You can basically just partner with big companies like YouTube. Anybody can upload. I was a pharmacist with multiple six figures in student loan debt, struggling through the American healthcare industry, which is a mess both for the providers as well as for the patients. And I was very stressed and burned out at my job, and then I started my personal brand on YouTube. And all I did is just literally teach what I already knew for a living. So everything on this list is somebody paying for your years, so you can tutor it. Coach it. Do it as a service. The expert networks won't even take you without 10 years of experience. Then companies pay you $100 to $1,000 an hour to ask you questions. For instance, a chef named Jean-Pierre retired with 60 years in the kitchen, and then he started filming at 68, and over 2.4 million people subscribed, and a video of him making butter got over 7 million views. And our community is full of this. Judd is in his 50s, he teaches semi-retirees, and he made it to over $20,000 a month. Nathan teaches people how to play chess better, and he makes a full-time income. Andrea got laid off as a CMO and then she got 37 paying clients. Dee got a $10,000 deal right after creating her YouTube channel. And Craig was in his late 60s, got over 100,000 views on one of his first videos. So you can literally just take what you already know in your career or different skills you've gotten good at in your life or just things that you've spent a lot of time doing or even problems that you've had that you've been able to overcome and just teach other people the skill or teach other people how to overcome the problem on YouTube. And it's actually significantly easier for you to do this if you're over the age of 50. And the reason we know this is because we have a community with over a thousand clients. And we noticed time and time again that people over 50 were getting results on YouTube much easier and faster than people under 50. And that's why to prove it, I literally took my own brother, Zach, had him learn the same system that I'm going to teach you guys in the live training that I'm doing this week. Again, click that first link in the description and the pinned comment below. And his very first video blew up, got over 800,000 views, and he went from zero to a full-time income in less than one month. And then I did the same exact thing with Nurse Jen, who is a burned out nurse with 30 33 years of experience and was 60 years old. And she was recording her videos on her laptop webcam. Very basic setup. And the first month she was monetized, she made $6,000. Second month she was monetized, she made $8,000. Third month she made it to $10,000 in a single month. So whether you're starting with a phone like my brother started with, or you're starting with a webcam on your laptop like Nurse Jin did, you can absolutely get started. I'm going to teach you exactly how to do that in the live training this week. Click that first link in the description and the pinned comment below. Next one is classic car appraiser. Somebody's selling a 67 Mustang. Somebody's getting divorced and the car's in the fight. They pay you 250 to $750 to inspect it, take 100 photos, and write the number. And here's why they want you. Hagerty insures more collector cars than anybody and here's their customer. Average age is 56, 20 years in the hobby. And a third of them are retired. And those guys do not trust a 25-year-old to price a car that they've owned longer than he's been alive. So an appraiser named Jason films his inspections. And his videos have been watched over 6 million times. Now you might be thinking, well, Shane, I'm not a mechanic. You don't need to know cars. But the certification is 40 hours online and it's a $750 exam. Then it's a phone, a laptop, and a website. And here's how to start. Take the IACP course, then call the insurance agents in your town who write Hagerty policies. They need appraisals every week. And by the way, not all these jobs are gonna be good for every single one of you, right? You might see some of these and you might hate them and some of the other ones, you're going to love them, right? But you're probably going to see one on this list that's going to be a really good fit for you and probably a few of them. Quick break. I'm going to be doing a live training on how to start YouTube step-by-step for beginners this week. It is a completely free training, no strings attached. In fact, I'm giving away even more bonuses at the training. Just as an example, I'm going to be giving away my niche validator. And this is going to be available for both Claude as well as ChatGPT, which is a super valuable piece of software where you can finally figure out what the best niche for you is. So do not miss out on this training. Make sure you sign up for it down down in the description and the pen comment below because you only get it if you join the training. So if you don't join now, you might miss it. But that being said, in the workshop, you'll get to meet me. You'll get to ask me questions directly. So I look forward to meeting you. So click the link in the description, the pen comment below, make sure you put it on your calendar. And if for whatever reason you missed out on it, you weren't able to attend, make sure you still click that link because we might be having workshops in the future as well. And you'll be the first to know about it. So yeah. Hope to see you there. And now back to your regularly scheduled programming. But now let's get back to more traditional type careers. So the next one we're going to talk about is a senior living sales counselor. So every assisted living building has one person whose job is the tour. The 82-year-old and her daughter walk in scared. You walk them through and you get paid when they move in. And look at who's buying. 84% of people in assisted living are 75 or older, and the one who's doing the research is the daughter. The average family caregiver is 51, so your customer is a 51-year-old woman deciding about her mom. She's not handing that to a 26-year-old. Here's a job posting just to show you. They might be thinking, Shane, I've never sold anything. You've moved a parent. That's the interview And here's how to start. Search sales counselor, senior living and move-in coordinator. Brookdale, Sunrise, Erickson, Atria, no license. And one of our community members, Weldon, built a business on this exact customer. He's the downsizer guy. He helps people get rid of 40 years of stuff before they move. And he had 278 videos up and under 300 subscribers. Within one 28-day stretch, he got over 390,000 views. Next one is going to be rent a grandma. Now, this one's pretty self-explanatory, and it is a real company. Families hire a nanny or a house manager, and the whole brand is that she's a grandma. And their own website says, why hire a teenage nanny when you can have a grandma? The founder started by recruiting women over 50, and the average age is 60. In Japan, there's a service called OK Grandma. It's got about 100 women aged 60 to 94, and a video of a guy renting one for the day has been watched over 490,000 times. Now, here's the honest part. Rent a grandma doesn't pay you. It's $25 listing, and the family hires you and pays you directly. You set the rate. Nanny rates typically run $21 to $27 an hour. So if you want an actual paycheck, Seniors Helping Seniors hires mature men and women as caregivers. And Papa pays about $22 an hour to keep an older person company. So here's how to start. Register at Rent-A-Grandma.com or apply at Seniors Helping Seniors or Papa. All right, the next one is going to be a memoir ghostwriter. So families pay to have grandpa's life story written down before he's gone. A company called Lifebook charges $18,000 to $42,000 for one book. And the interviewer and the writer are two different people. The interviewer visits the old man at home 12 times and listens. And they post job postings quite often. And the requirements are active listening, empathy, and patience. Now, here's why they want you. Their own site says that their interviewers are Mature. Of course, an 85-year-old tells his war stories to somebody his daughter's age, not a 24-year-old with a ring light. And about doing that at your age? Well, there's a 65-year-old farm wife in Missouri who'd never published a book. Her daughter, a professional writer, helped shape her stories. So basically, she just told her stories to her daughter and her daughter wrote the books for her. And that first book that came out in 1932 was Little House on the Prairie. And the author's name was Laura Ingalls Wilder. And she started at 65. So here's how to start. Apply as an interviewer at Lifebook or go independent. for four hours of recorded interviews and more for the book. All right, the next one is the weirdest one here, and you can sign up tonight. Paid clinical trial volunteer. Drug companies pay healthy people to take a new drug under supervision. You sleep at the clinic. They draw blood. You play bingo. Here are some people hiring this position. I'll put them up on the screen. And a 25-year-old can't get in. The study requires your age. Now, you might be thinking, is it dangerous? Well, the British Medical Journal looked at 11,000 healthy volunteers across 394 studies, and only three-tenths of 1% had any serious problems. No deaths. Most common side effect was a headache. With that being said, you don't have to do it. This is just a suggestion for something that you could look into. And the pay is honestly not that great. Day studies pay $20 an hour to... Okay, so the next one comes with a badge, long-term care ombudsman. Every nursing home in America has somebody whose only job is to take the resident's side. You visit the buildings, you sit with the residents, you take the complaint, and you go fix it. It's federal law. Here's why they want you. The skills can come from working as a caregiver. or from life experiences. And there is not a 26-year-old alive who can put that on their application. And if you've ever walked a parent through a nursing home, you've already done the interview. And they're short. Each ombudsman covers about 600 beds. Now you might be thinking, isn't this a volunteer thing? Most of them are, yeah. But there are over 1,500 paid staff as well. And they make $40,000 to $78,000 a year. No degree on that posting. And the state certifies you after you're hired. So here's how to start. Go to itcombudsman.org. Find your state's office and look at the paid openings and the volunteer certification. That's the on-ramp. This is pretty similar to what Nurse Jen does, who I mentioned before. She's one of our community members. Like I said, she's 60. She spent 33 years as a nurse and she had never made a YouTube video in her life. And now she teaches seniors how to survive the American healthcare system. And her biggest videos have been watched over 800,000 times. And she's making over $10,000 a month just from AdSense alone. Plus, she's got her first sponsorship and affiliate deals. So same job, taking the old person's side, but bigger paycheck. Okay, so the next one is going to be awkward. sell people their own funeral before they die. This is known as a funeral pre-need counselor. So funeral homes hire people to sit at a kitchen table with a 72-year-old and plan it now. The casket, the plot, the service, at today's price. The money goes into a trust. And a funeral director named Carrie films this world. Her videos have been watched over 25 million times. Now here's why they want you. A 72-year-old is not planning her funeral with a 26-year-old living in a tiny home. The Chicago Posting says it. The job is community events at senior living communities comfortable speaking with older adults, $65,000 to $130,000. Another one we found posted is $70,000 to $80,000 a year and no earning cap. Now you might be thinking, Shane, that's a sleazy job. At a bad funeral home, it is. And that's why the state licenses it. You need a life insurance license, almost $150 in most states. And here's how to start. Search pre-need and advanced planning Get the life license. Pick a funeral home that sets the appointments for you. Okay, so the next one is the one from the hiring page, and that is a cruise ship gentleman host. So the fancy cruise lines like Cunard, Silver Sea, Cristal, carry two to four men on every long cruise, and their only job is to dance with the single ladies. Yeah, I'm not kidding you. No favorites, no dating the passengers. Here's why they want you, the best line in the video. The agency that places them, Compass, single men, 40 to 68 years old, most of our hosts are retired or semi-retired. A 30-year-old cannot apply. And I'll be straight with you, this one is not a paycheck. You're paid about $30 a day to the agency. You get the cabin, the meals, sometimes the airfare, and a free luxury cruise for dancing. With that being said, you can get tipped very well. Now, here's how to start. Be single first, pass a 30-minute dance test, own a tuxedo, pass a background check, and compass and six-star take applications. But there's another kind of cruise host, and this one pays. Christina's in our community. She built a seven-figure travel business hosting group cruises, and she books the trip, sails with the group, films all of it, and over 50,000 people follow her channel. One video did over 700,000 views, and I did a whole video with her on this channel. When I saw you in October, things were pumping really well. The video side of it started with the same free live training that I'm running this week. Seats are capped. So again, click that first link in the description in the pinned comment below. Really excited to do this live training. Really excited to present the information to you guys. Hope to see you there. The next one is a staple, final expense life insurance agent. So final expense is the small policy, $10,000 to $15,000 that pays for the funeral so that the kids don't have to. The buyer is $60,000 to $85,000, paying about $50 a month. And here's why they want you. The average insurance agent in America is 59. That's McKinsey's number. And the industry says the older agent is a plus because the customer is older. A 74-year-old widow is not buying her burial policy from a 24-year-old kid. Cody Askins, who trains agents, has a video on your first 90 days that's been watched over 240,000 times. So the money here is you get 80 to 120% of your first year's premium, about $500 to $700 per policy. And if the policy lapses, they take the commission back and a lot of the recruiting in this business Asking your recruiter for two agents who actually made it. So here's how to start. Get your state life license about one hundred and fifty dollars and contact the carrier that gives you leads. And RJ is good proof here. He talks about things like life insurance. He's in our community. He's retired. He's in his 60s and he's a former CEO. He talks to the exact person that you'd be selling to a 62 year old deciding about Social Security. And his biggest video did over one point four million views. And a few months after starting with us, he made it to twenty eight thousand dollars in a single month. And that's what I teach at the free training this Again, link below. All right, the next one is boring and it pays, and that is an elder fraud specialist at a bank. So last year, Americans over 60 lost $7.75 billion to scams, and over 12,000 of them lost more than $100,000 each. So every bank now hires people to catch it. You call the 80-year-old and you talk her out of sending $40,000 to some a-hole pretending to be her grandson. So here's why they want you. A scared 80-year-old will not admit to a 25-year-old that she got fooled, but she'll tell you, and the postings say the rest. Many of the postings are $70,000 plus. We even see $100,000 Now you might be thinking, I've never worked at a bank. Then look at Adult Protective Services. Philadelphia posted one for $72,000 to $85,000. And it takes one year of nursing, human services, or law enforcement. So here's how to start. Search fraud investigator at your local banks and credit unions and Adult Protective Services investigator at your county. Next one is for the nurses out there. And this is a legal nurse consultant. When a hospital gets sued, the lawyer can't read the chart, but you can. You find the four-hour gap in the notes where everything went wrong, and there's normal hours and no night shifts. Now, you might be thinking, well, I've never done anything legal. Well, a Michigan firm's posting says it. Prior legal experience is helpful, but not required. And independent consultants charge about $150 an hour to review records. So here's how to start. AALNC, the association, runs a free webinar. They send one letter to every malpractice firm in town. And remember, Jen, 33 years as a nurse, lawyers will pay for that. So will the internet. Same years, but two paychecks. All right, next one is boring, and it's also everywhere. And that is an HOA community manager. So there are 373,000 homeowners associations in America. 78 million people live in one. Somebody has to run the meetings, collect the dues, and deal with a guy whose fence is four inches too tall. And here's why they want you. The board is six retirees. They are not taking orders from a 24-year-old. And there are big management companies such as Spectrum that post jobs for this, and it usually starts at about $57,000 a year. Now, the $57,000 is just for starting, but managers of big communities report a median of $155,000. Now, you might be thinking, you're going to get yelled at all day. Sometimes, but so does every job with a customer. The difference is, this one goes somewhere, and the credential is $360. So here's how to start. Get the CMCA, one course and a $360 exam. Search community association manager. Florida, for instance, needs a state license. Most states don't and nobody's really filling this job yet. So that would be a good idea for a YouTube channel. All right, the next one is personal and that is veterans service officer. So when a veteran files for disability benefits, the paperwork is an absolute nightmare. And I would know this personally because I did the paperwork for my own dad who's a Vietnam veteran. Now the VA has over 650,000 claims pending right now Veteran service officer sits with the vet and files it right. Now, like I said, my own dad went through this. He tried to get his VA benefits and it was a huge headache. Months of forms, denials and calling back turned into years of forms, denials and calling back. Finally, they gave him a small percentage of what he deserved. And we had to do it again and again and again. The entire process has taken about a decade now. And that is this job. And here's why they want you. Half of all living veterans are 65 or older. Your customer is a 70-something-year-old Vietnam vet, and he's not telling his story to a kid. Now, there's a lot of different places that post for this, and the postings generally range from about $50,000 to $95,000. And a former service officer named Jason films VA benefits explainers, and over 200,000 people subscribe to him. And one video got 300,000 views. Now, you might be thinking, well, I'm not a veteran. In most states, you don't have to be. Minnesota and Wisconsin say you do. But here's how to start. Search veteran service officer on your county's job page, usually about $400 in 32 hours after you're hired. All right. Next one is the process server. Yes, this is the you've been served guy or gal. So somebody is getting sued. Somebody has to hand them the papers. You drive to the house, you knock, you say you've been served and you get paid $20 to $100 a serve. Now, here's why they want you. A Wisconsin firm's hiring page shows that this is the perfect job for retirees. And the real reason is people answer for a 62 year old and a windbreaker. They don't answer for a 25 year old. And the biggest company in the business This business features a 63-year-old And here's how to start. In Texas, it's a seven-hour course and $200. In most states, you just have to be 18 and not part of the case. Then sign up with ABC Legal and get paid daily. So I know that 99% of you are just going to watch my free content, get a ton of value out of it, and you're definitely going to attend my live training to get a ton of value out of that. Even if you are remotely interested in starting a YouTube channel, you should absolutely attend my live training. It's totally free and it's incredibly valuable. With that being said, there's going to be about 1%, of you out there that are very serious about growing and making money on YouTube and really just taking YouTube seriously and treating it like a business. And we have a very limited mentorship program where we are accepting about five people right now to work one-on-one with to help them grow their YouTube channel. It is very time consuming, very expensive, and very difficult for us to do this, but we have an incredible track record and the absolute best case studies in the industry to show for it. So if that sounds interesting to you, go ahead and click the second link in the description in the pinned comment below to book a call with us. But only book if you're very serious about growing and making money on YouTube and you understand the value of one-on-one mentorship. With that being said, click this video right here to see exactly how we helped a 60-year-old nurse go from zero to a full-time income in a very short period of time by growing her YouTube personal brand. And you can check that out by clicking right here.