Article on BBC news at lunchtime about truck delays at Dover featured a deli owner in Bristol specialising in Spanish imports.
Paperwork has gone through the roof, deliveries are delayed and prices will need to go up.
Will get worse in next 6 months when physical checks need to be done on all imports (waived during transitional period at the moment)
That is the sort of buerocratic hell I would run a mile from, not choose to run toward.
It’s difficult enough importing & exporting simple non -food items.
There are further food checks coming in July on top of the extra bureaucracy they’re already dealing with.
Didn’t realise ‘holding all the cards’ would be quite so exhausting.
I don’t know how much he makes, but a friend of mine retired (partner, veterinary practice), and took up work as an auto-parts delivery van driver.
Happy as Larry. Drives around listening to music, occasionally must lift something heavy into/out of truck, but he is still fit. No pressure, because if anyone starts to push their weight around he’d just smile, hand them the van keys and say “see ya”, and they know it.
Running your own school bus for children with disabilities would probably get you more than ~£35K, but initial costs setting up the van(s), insurance and getting training and certificates and keeping them up-to-date (what to do if Johnny has a fit, etc) might be off-putting. Also, if the two of you share the job, who covers you if you want to go on a holiday?
How do you want to spend your retirement? Travelling around the world evaluating high-end hi fi shops, pubs, restaurants, camp sites, etc., and putting your reviews on YouTube?
Do you have anything other than a State Pension? Savings? Own your own home? Would you be able to lower your costs and get by without the extra £35K a year?
My wife enjoyed her stint as a pharmacist’s prescription delivery driver until she went into the house of a fat, dead bloke. Auto Parts sounds a better idea.
I’d quite like to do multi drop delivery… My back wouldn’t.
We do own the house but planning on selling that and downsizing circa 70+ to top up the pension pot
£35k is broadly what we will get from age 68 so if we can get that now we can slow the pace of life and live a little
I walk down a quiet, narrow country road every so often (it’s technically the Ridgeway, so it’s been more-or-less there for maybe 3,000 years). Yesterday I shared it with, which means I repeatedly leapt out of the way of, a clearly pressured Amazon van driver. Fastest vehicle I’ve ever seen there. I don’t think he was having a good time.
Drop-off for the druids?
Occupational Plan B’s
Magnet fisher
Bunging a ruddy big magnet on a string down canals and what not. The salary on this may be variable holiday and sick pay might also be a tad vague but the pay off package looks unfuckwithable - How was your day today darling? “Bit of a slow start but things really picked up after lunch, I got a sweet crossbow, and an Asda trolley with three wheels”
A few big houses with gates, which no-one was answering. Prime real-estate ?
Comper sounds interesting, spoke to someone who makes circa 15k a year from winning competitions and selling the prizes, hard to believe it’s not an obsession to get to that level I feel
Yes, not yodel or amazon, I briefly looked into yodel or hermes a few years ago.
Think it was a pound a drop, but only counted once the customer had it.
Even if you got 80 drops in a day, after paying for your own fuel and car wear and tear, I was quickly put off.
Become a youtuber.
hosting wife swapping parties, hot tub antics - do you have a pampas in your front garden?
you could be a fluffer
I have room for pampas and I do have a bowl to put keys in
Might want to check first with Mrs Japanese - she is a lawyer, right ?
Divorce lawyer so yep possible a good idea to check
After school club (we live opposite a primary school) is tempting idea
Ah, OK. I’m seeing all sorts of potential business synergies.
I keep looking back into this thread - not for ideas, cos nearly 3 years into being a human flytip I’ve yet to come-up with anything - but for ideas to steal…
One thing I have learned - if you want to get paid to do something in 2020s Britain, you either need connections, or be willing to do something no-one wants to do…
Good luck - sincerely 
For you, there’s only one possibility - Onlyfans. Perhaps as a “special interest” type thing.
