5 Jobs BEGGING To Hire People Over 50

These are the five jobs that are begging to hire people over 50 and I promise you at least one of them is going to fit you. Now, I'm the guy who went $300,000 in student loan debt for a doctorate before I understood how hiring actually works. I ended up in a career that I didn't even like after spending all that time and money. So, I built the career channel that I wish that I had when I started and I've now helped over a thousand people with verified testimonials get jobs in my community. I've noticed that many people in my community are over the age of 50 and people over 50 do face unique challenges when it comes to actually picking the right jobs. But, there are certain careers that are actually better if you're 50-plus. It actually gives you an advantage of being older. Just like Brian for instance, who was able to land a job at the age of 59. But, here's what most people over 50 get wrong. They send 200 resumes into industries full of 28-year-olds and wonder why the phone stopped ringing. The smarter move is to walk into the industries where the whole workforce is retiring at the same time because when people who know the job leave faster than they can be replaced, that's a supply and demand imbalance. And that means the power shifts towards you, not the company. That means that the company's going to stop screening for your birth year and start asking you when you can start. And they're not doing you a favor, you're doing them one. So, whether you got laid off at 50 years old and they told you, "Hey, thank you for your service." or you have a pension that stopped stretching, or you have a body that's done with physical labor, or you're just bored and you want a part-time job because you're 6 months into retirement. No matter what, there's going to be a job on this list for you. Now, every claim in this video has a name source on the screen. We're going to be showing you government data, industry surveys, and real people with real numbers. And the one that I'd personally pick is the last one. So, if you appreciate me making this type of content and you want me to make more of it in the future, then let me know by gently cheersing that like button and let's jump into it right now. All right, the first one on the list is going to be a snow plow driver. So, you drive a truck with a blade on the front pushing snow off the highway and dropping salt so nobody dies on the way to work. And Oregon's Department of Transportation put it in writing. "Retirements left hundreds of plow positions vacant heading into the winter." And New Hampshire's DOT is literally asking retirees to come back and help during storms. But you might be thinking, okay Shane, but plow snow at my age? Well, you'd be surprised that there are some people who are doing this even in their retirement. And it actually makes a lot of sense to do this in retirement, too. Just as an example, John Kennedy is a retired plastic surgeon. And a friend at the DOT joked, come push snow with me. And he took it seriously, and now he clears the exit ramps on I-380 at night. Just think about that for a second. He's a surgeon who is retired. He doesn't need the money, and now he does this for fun. It's not like he's having to work all the time. He only works when he's needed. Now, while I was researching for this video, I stumbled upon this video right here. So, there's a channel called Garrett Williams, and it's a snow contractor who films his plow runs from the cab. For instance, plowing $100 driveways with 100K plow truck has about 530,000 views. Half a million people watch the truck push snow. And then there's Dirt Monkey, a lifelong contractor with over a million subscribers who films the jobs and the equipment. For instance, what it's like to be a snow plow operator, a long cold day in the life of a snow fighter. And he got 133,000 views on one night of plowing. Now, usually what I like to do when I come across these YouTube videos is I check their view stats. And View Stats estimates the amount of money that people make with their YouTube channel or their YouTube videos as a part of my research because I'm a YouTuber. And I'm just generally curious about that. And this guy right here, according to View Stats, makes about $1,000 to $4,000 a month basically documenting his day snow plowing. Now, hold that thought because it's going to come up a lot in this video. The jobs with the worst shortages get the most attention online. Even the Iowa DOT filmed a 15-part plow driver training series, and this one episode has 575,000 views. So, when a state government makes a YouTube series to train or recruit you, you know that they're desperate. Now, for the pay. Illinois's DOT hires seasonal snowbird drivers, great word, at about $6,044 a month or $27 an hour. And Glassdoor has snow plow drivers making between $52,000 and $86,000 a year with a median of about 66,000 dollars. Now, that's a full-time income, so it's really good right off the bat, but when you consider the fact that they only have to work during certain seasons of the year, that's really good money. So, this is definitely something where you'd want to check your state and see if there's openings for this one. >> All right, YouTube just got 10 times easier and nobody is talking about it. You used to need an entire film crew, and it used to be a full-time job for you to just do any work at all on YouTube. But now, you can get work done in as little as 15 to 30 minutes a day, and you can actually grow a full-time YouTube channel. That's exactly what I'll be talking about at the live training that we're doing this week. Exactly how to start YouTube step-by-step for beginners. So, click the link in the description and pin comment below to check that out, guys. I will be answering questions before, during, and after the live training. It's completely free, plus I'll be giving away an AI that is designed to help you pick your niche if you don't have one in the first place, or if you already have a niche, it's going to help you make it 10 times better. So, really looking forward to talking with you guys. This is stuff that we've never talked about before, so click that link in the description and comment below. I look forward to seeing you there. >> All right, next one is going to be retirement or financial advisors. And this is the person that family sit down with to sort out their money, retirement plans, investments, insurance, etc. And instead of an hourly wage, you usually earn a percentage of the money that you manage. So, Cerulli Associates, the research firm that this entire industry relies on, found that 109,093 financial advisors plan to retire in the next 10 years. And that's 37.5% of the whole profession, and they control 41.5% of all assets. Meanwhile, over an entire year, the industry added a net of only about 2,706 new advisors. So, the numbers are not numbering here. There's way more people retiring than there are people coming into the profession. So, more than a third of the profession is heading for an exit, and almost nobody is coming in behind them. Now, you might be thinking, "Well, Shane, that industry wants young hotshots. Nobody wants someone starting at 55." Well, Think Advisor reported on an industry survey that found just 18% of advisors' clients are under 50 years old. Flip that around, and 82% of the people using the service are 50 and older. So, picture a couple in their 60s about to hand over their life savings. Who are they going to trust? A 24-year-old who just got licensed? Someone who was basically a child the last time the economy crashed? Or someone who's actually lived through a recession, carried a mortgage, and paid a kids' tuition bill? AKA somebody who has wisdom and experience. And the people who know this world are crushing it on YouTube as well. Take Azool. He spent over 20 years as a financial advisor. He's recently retired, and now he helps people get ready for retirement both financially and mentally. And his whole message is, "Don't waste the youth of your senior years." And his video, "Retiring at 65 is a huge mistake. Retirement expert explains why." has almost 3 million views. And according to VidIQ, his channel makes around $14,000 a month. Now, I happen to know that these VidIQ numbers usually estimate on the shorter side. So, he's likely making significantly more money than that. And the reason I know is because one of our community members, RJ, runs a channel called The Unretired, which is very similar. And he covers the money side of retirement as well, like when to take social security, how much people actually have to have saved, and how taxes can eat into what you built. And it's the stuff that people are terrified of getting wrong. And he only started that channel in February of 2025, and it's already at almost 70,000 subscribers and close to 5 million views. His video, "Seven smart reasons to take social security at 62 instead of waiting." has almost 1.5 million views. And he's already had a $28,000 month. And he gets far less views than Azool. So, Azool is likely making over $100,000 a month with that channel. Now, I want you to really think about what just happened here, right? A normal financial advisor gets clients one at a time. A referral here, a lunch there, maybe a seminar with 20 people in a hotel conference room. Azool made one video, and almost 3 million people sat down and listened to him talk about retirement. That's not a client list, that's a stadium. And RJ didn't have decades on YouTube, he started his channel in February of 2025. And in about a year and a half, he's at almost 70,000 subscribers and close to 5 million views. And every one of those people found him, trusted him, and came back for more before he ever said a word to them directly. And that's what YouTube does that nothing else does. You record a video once and it keeps working for you at 2:00 in the morning on a Sunday while you're on vacation, every single day. People are typing their exact problem into that search bar. And if you're the one to answer, you become the person that they trust. So, there's great money in being a financial advisor, but there's arguably even more money in being the person thousands of people already trust before they ever meet you. And here's the part that most people get wrong. You don't need millions of views. One of our community members for instance, Carla, has about 1,400 subscribers and most of her videos get under 200 views. And she still landed a six-figure contract directly from YouTube. Think about it like this. If 200 people watch your video, imagine doing a presentation to 200 people in a room. There's a pretty good chance that one of those people might buy whatever you're having to sell them. And it actually doesn't have to be anything job or money related either. Nathan for instance, teaches chess on a channel with under 6,000 subscribers and he's making a full-time income coaching. So, you don't need the whole world watching, you just need the right people watching. Now, you might be thinking, "Shane, I'm not a tech person. I wouldn't even know how to set up a camera." Well, neither did my brother Zach. And he spent almost 30 years in the trades, never recorded video in his life, and his very first video got 822,000 views. 29 days after posting that video, he made $214 in a single day. That's a $78,000 a year run rate and that's a full-time income in less than 1 month. So, he went from zero to a full-time income in less than 1 month, right? So, it could just be a job that you already got into, it could be something you've done for 30 years, it could be some problem that you've overcome or just something that you've spent a lot of time doing, or it could be the thing that everyone always asks you for your help with, or a hobby that you love, etc., etc. If you know something, there are people out there searching for it right now. The only question is whether they find you or they find somebody else. So, if you want to see exactly how RJ, Carla, and my brother did this, join my free live training this week by clicking the first link in the description and the pin comment below. This is a limited-time live training. There are also limited seats. Almost every time we do this live training, we run out of seats and people can't even get in. So, make sure you secure your seat right now by clicking that first link in the description and the pin comment below because there are limited seats in the Zoom call. And we'll be teaching you how to build your personal brand on YouTube, and then you can actually syndicate the content to other platforms. And this is helpful whether you want to get a job or whether you want to start a side hustle, make money online, or drive traffic to a business. It's pretty much a cheat code to have a YouTube channel right now. Very similar to when websites first came out. So, click that first link in the description and the pin comment below to attend the live training. And by the way, if you're watching this in the future, still click that link because it'll automatically put you on a wait list to attend the next live training that we do. And I will be answering questions before, during, and after the live training. So, I look forward to seeing you there. All right, next one is a small engine technician. So, you're the one who fixes the mowers, the chainsaws, the generators, and the snow blowers that quit at a dealer or on your own bench. No roofs, no crawl spaces. Now, the industry's own dealer survey found that 91.5% of equipment dealers are concerned or most concerned about finding technicians. And the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects around 7,700 openings for small engine mechanics every single year. And most of them replacing people who retire. Now, a shop owner 60 years in told the local news, "So many of the businesses in the area have quit doing this and we're one of the very few left. And the people who know this trade are retiring, and their shops are closing behind them." But you might be thinking, "Okay, Shane, but I'm not a mechanic." Well, that is a fair point, but if you're someone who's over 50 and you have experience working with machines, then this could be good for you, right? If you're the type of person who's a tinkerer and you just like messing around with machines, this is something that you could potentially do. You don't really have to be a car mechanic or anything like that. If you have some familiarity working with machines, then this could be good for you because there are a lot of examples of people who are not necessarily mechanics. They basically just fix small engines on YouTube. So, just as an example, there's a channel called Mustie1. It's one guy, a home shop, dragging dead generators in off the curb and bringing them back to life for people who'd rather fix than toss. And this video is titled will it run? And it's a free generator from the side of the road and it got about 3.2 million views. And according to View Stats, that channel is pulling in about $2,000 to $5,500 a month. Then there's Taryl Fixes All, a real shop owner going on 50 years in business teaching carburetors and rebuilds inside of comedy skits with his sons. And he posted a video called small engine total rebuild a complete guide and it's around 1.9 million views. And View Stats has that channel at about $3,200 to $8,900 a month. And then there's Chickanic. Bree ran her own small engine shop in Arkansas for 12 years and she films what crosses the bench, the fixes and the fails. And she posted this video a typical day at my small engine repair shop. It got 615,000 views on a channel with 927,000 subscribers. And according to View Stats, that channel is pulling in about $6,000 to $16,000 a month. And the job itself, well, Glassdoor has small engine mechanics between $57,000 and $85,000 a year with a median of about $69,000. Now, notice what every one of those channels is. Somebody knows a job, they film the job and then the internet pays them for it. And this is really how the new alternative education system works. College is still really good for some careers. But there's so many careers out there that are moving so fast that college simply cannot keep up with them or college was just never a good way to learn those careers in the first place. So, a much better way to do it is to just learn from somebody on YouTube. And I can say for sure that I've gotten more value from the free content that I've consumed on YouTube than I did from my $300,000 college degree, 100%. So, there's this secret side of my business that most of you have no idea exists. And I actually have a coaching program on personal branding and growing on YouTube and making money on YouTube. This is good for complete beginners, maybe even people who just want to get a job by growing their personal brand, as well as business owners, all the way up to people who are very advanced on YouTube. And they get to work directly with myself and my team to help them reach their goals. Now, we are opening up three to five spots and this is pretty rare. We usually don't have these open. We usually only limit them to a select amount of people as well, but we're opening up three to five spots, and you can check those down the description and the pinned comment below. And in this program, you will get to work directly with myself and other people who are highly successful on YouTube. Everyone in our program has 100K plus subscriber plaques. Just as an example, Shawn was able to go all the way from being stuck, not making very much money on his channel, to making over $500,000 in a single month. Now, that's an example of one of my more advanced students, but there are lots of examples of people starting off from scratch, and they got to 5K a month or 10K a month, etc. So, check that out down the description and the pinned comment below, and I look forward to working with you and see if you're a good fit to work together. All right, so the next one is going to be a hearing instrument specialist. So, this is where you test someone's hearing, pick the right hearing aid, fit it, and then keep tuning it until they can hear their grandkids again. So, a study in JAMA found that 75% of US counties are hearing care shortage counties. That means three out of every four counties in America. And here's who the customer is. The National Institutes of Health say that 55% of people 75 and older have disabling hearing loss. And fewer than one in three of the people who could use a hearing aid has ever used one. So, the customer is your age, and 70% of them haven't bought yet. So, that's supply and demand, and not enough people fit the hearing aids, and half the 75 and over crowd needs one, so they pay you more. You might be thinking, "All right, Shane, but that's a sales job." Well, let's talk about selling to your own generation. Who does a 72-year-old trust about hearing aids? A 24-year-old in a polo shirt who's never had any hearing difficulties themselves and has never had a friend with hearing difficulties either, or you? Well, there's a channel called Doctor Cliff, AUD, and he owns a hearing clinic in Phoenix, and his whole channel reviews hearing aids and exposes the industry scams for people over 60 buying their first pair. Just as an example, five biggest hearing aid scams has around 330,000 views, and the channel feeds his clinic. Now, according to ViewStats, that channel is pulling in roughly $3,300 to $9,300 a month, and that's just in AdSense alone. AdSense are the ads that pop up on the channel. So, just to put this in perspective, on our channel, less than 5% of our income comes from AdSense. So, chances are he's making significantly more money than that, especially if he's sending clients and customers to his clinic. And by the way, you don't even need to be a doctor necessarily to apply to these jobs or talk about these topics. This is an example, one of my community members, Guy, has tinnitus. It's constant ringing in his ears that never stops. And his whole channel is about hearing, and all he wanted was just to make 1 to $2,000 a month to supplement his retirement income. Because that would significantly increase his quality of life, right? He'd be able to go out to dinner with his friends, he'd be able to travel a little bit more, spend more time with his family, and just not have to worry about money as much. And he was able to get to $1,500 a month with less than 500 subscribers, 456 to be exact. And the pay, well, Glassdoor has hearing instrument specialist between 120 to 196,000 dollars a year in total pay, with the median of around 151,000. Now, you might be thinking, "Shane, that much money? There's got to be a license involved." Well, there is. And here's the honest version. California, it's four things. Be 18, have a high school diploma, pass a background check, and pass the state exam. And you don't sit at home studying, they give you a trainee license. So, you work under a licensed specialist for a few months getting paid while you prep for the test. And this is months, and it's a test, not a degree. But, do check your state. And the customer is your age. Being over 50 isn't the thing that you have to get past in this job, it's the qualification. And in many cases, even if the people that are watching you are younger than 50, it's kind of like they're looking up to an internet grandpa or an internet uncle or aunt, etc. In their words, you can earn while you learn. So, you're on a payroll before your license. So, the barrier is a test and training, not a degree. So, the last one, and this is the one that I would personally pick, and there's honestly many different ways to do this, is teaching a very specific skill. So, take the thing that you've done for 30 years, and simply teach it. And I'll show you the classroom version of this because the shortage is real there, too. So, Fox Business reported at least 26 states are short on career and technical education teachers. So, these are the people who teach welding, auto, HVAC, nursing, cooking, etc., etc. in a school shop. And in California, the credential is 3 years of work experience in the industry, and Mark Fitzsimons, for instance, ran his own printing company, and 34 years later, he teaches graphic design with it. So, your 30 years in the trade isn't the obstacle, it's the credential. Now, you might be thinking, "All right, Shane, but I don't have a teaching degree." Well, 3 years in the trade is the degree. And Glassdoor has CTE teachers between 67 and $108,000 a year, averaging around 85,000. But, if you don't have 3 years to wait and get a license, well, great, you can still teach skills that you've learned in the car cast on YouTube. Because here's the thing, the classroom holds 30 kids. So, there's a channel called Mr. Pete 222, and Mr. Pete is a retired high school shop teacher. He spent 40 years in the classroom, and he films in his own shop on a basic camera, no editing to speak of, and he's still uploading. And he's got 324,000 subscribers and almost 98 million views. And he's clearly making a lot of money doing this. But, you might be thinking, "Okay, Shane, but I'm not techy, no equipment, can't edit, not good on camera." Well, neither is Mr. Pete. He's got a camcorder and 40 years of knowledge, and nobody watching cares about the camera. They're begging for the 40 years. And of course, you could use this to get local clients, or you can just do online clients. For instance, people might hire you hourly to answer their questions, and you'd charge them $100 to $200 an hour just for a 1-hour Zoom call. And that's where one of our community members comes in. I like to call her Nurse Jen. She's 60, 33 years of nursing. And when she first joined us, she said, "I hadn't dipped my toe into YouTube." So, she was a complete beginner, never uploaded a single video in her life. And she followed everything that we told her, and less than 2 months later, her videos were popping off. Two hit 600,000 views. Another one 700,000 plus in 3 weeks. And her first month monetized was $6,000 in AdSense, then the next month was 8,000, then the month after that was $10,500. >> First month was right around 6,000, the second month was right around 8,000, this month will be right around 10,000. >> And she quit her telehealth nursing job, and she's now traveling the country in her camper van, which was always her dream job. And she records her videos inside the van. And she's teaching, too, just not in the classroom. Now, if you want to learn the exact system, step-by-step for a beginner, of how we helped Nurse Jen get these results, as well as how we helped thousands of people grow their personal brands to either get a job or make a side income or something along those lines, then go ahead and attend our completely free live training by clicking the first link in the description and the pin comment below. And it is a limited time live training on there are limited seats, so make sure you click that first link right now. And we are giving away an AI that we spent hundreds of hours developing that's basically going to help you pick your niche in the first place. Or, if you already have a niche, it'll help you make it 10 times better. Right? So, we're giving this away at the live training. Do not miss out on it. Hundreds of people have raved about how good this AI is. So, click that first link in the description and the pin comment below and we look forward to seeing you there. And with that being said, check out this video right here to see exactly how we helped Nurse Jen go from zero to a full-time income in about 6 weeks.