When you retire from the workplace you continue to face the prospect of escalating living expenses: food, shelter, clothing, power supply, communications, insurances, council tax, etc., with less left over than you previously had at your disposal for enjoying the minor luxuries of life. And for the majority of retirees the prospect is doubly daunting as a direct result of vastly reduced incomings.

So what do you do; bite the bullet and settle for cutbacks in the quality of life?

Not inevitably so, because with tried and tested guidance, you can stretch your abilities to make some extra cash in retirement. For some this is not so much an option as a necessity.

This book focuses on providing the essential guidance by introducing you to ways and means of earning money in retirement in the traditional sense and, perhaps more significantly, in the new world of digital commerce which offers enterprising retirees a myriad of risk-free opportunities to create a steady flow of electronically-generated income. Follow the guidelines and you will make money. While you are unlikely to get rich whatever you do earn could represent the difference between coppering up every month to meet your commitments and looking at a surplus to spend or save as you wish.

In whichever direction you choose to travel, offline or online, you will not be left to your own devices because throughout this text you will find a multitude of links to resources designed to help you get the best out of earning in retirement and for your added convenience many of these links are repeated by category in the Appendix.

Good luck, and enjoy your retirement!