Jobs 50 and Over

Thanks largely to greedy bankers and ineffectual government, many

are now facing a dire financial future, with little prospect of an

improvement anytime soon. Indeed, Mervyn King, governor of the

Bank of England, has said that people will be feeling the effects of

this fiscal crisis for a long time to come. Soaring prices, increased

taxation, swingeing, vicious and completely unfair cuts to public

spending all bode well to add to the misery.

There is massive completion in the job market and those of us who

have been laid off, are disabled or unemployed and also past our

first (and possibly second…!) flush of youth are going to be hit hard.

Anyway, before I start to depress us all, I want to say there are still

exciting and lucrative opportunities for us, - jobs 50 and over, jobs

for people with disability, jobs for the laid off …if we take the

initiative and create them.

Many of us oldies have learned to master a computer and are

still compos mentis enough to learn new skills and new ways

of doing things. I’m living proof of that!

Online spending is massive and continuing to grow. In Europe alone

online sales are expected to increase by 13% this year. (STATS)

Online sales in Western Europe are expected to increase more than

13% to €92 billion in 2011, after growing 18% to €81 billion in

2010.

Forrester Research predict online sales will increase 10% year-over-

year from now until 2015.

The total number of online buyers in Europe,

- which includes the EU-17 (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland,

France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the

Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and

the U.K.),

- grew by 18% from 2009 to 2010, and is expected to grow from

157 million to 205 million.

Currently, 57% of European adults buy online, up 13.4 million (9%)

from 2009.

The average European online shopper spent €517 online in 2010,

excluding travel &

financial services products. The British spent the most online (€871

per person).

European adults are expected to spend €652 on average in 2015.

This is where we can create our own opportunities

and earn some decent money for Ourselves-

through online marketing.

With a willingness to put in the necessary effort- (don’t be fooled by

the many ‘Get-Rich-Quick’ promises out there- there are a lot of

shysters willing to take your money by promising such things),

coupled with a bit of old fashioned gumption, some sound

advice and guidance, creating your own online marketing business

is both possible and doable.

Sometimes, negative situations that cause us

distress and which we might be tempted to think

are our undoing, can prove (if you make the choice)

to be the exact opposite- a fantastic, golden

opportunity. You just need to reframe the situation

in the positive.

If life hands you a bag of lemons, you can complain

that you wanted oranges, or you could make some

delicious lemonade!!

Jobs 50 and over

Check out my web site and blog below- they might just give you some

ideas & encouragement…!

Web site http://www.makemoney-moneymaker.com

Blog http://www.makemoney-moneymaker.com/blog