The work adapts to you, not the other way round
You have a craft, experience and motivation, but the standard frame is not built for your pace — or it simply never replies. Here you are not applying to a slot someone else designed: you publish what you can give and on what terms, and look for partners it suits.
No starting capital, no committing to fixed hours, and no building a business alone.
If any of this is familiar
You have sent dozens of applications. Most went unanswered, and you suspect the reason is your year of birth.
You raised children or cared for a parent for years, and now the first question in every interview is about the gap.
Some days you can give six hours and some days none — and every position wants a fixed commitment agreed in advance.
You know exactly what you are worth, but building a business alone is a risk and an energy you do not have.
The problem is not what you can give. It is the shape in which it is customary to ask for it.
What is actually different here
You write the terms
You can offer yourself to a rikma in your own words: what you will do, how much, and when. This is not a job ad you are trying to squeeze into — it is a proposal you write, which the partners either approve or answer with different terms.
Hours are counted, not attendance
Someone who gave three hours receives the share of three hours. There are no sick days to negotiate, nobody to explain an absence to, and nobody deciding whether the reason was good enough.
Age and experience are a resource, not an obstacle
A rikma is made of people who complete each other. The experience, judgement and contacts you have built are exactly what someone younger is missing — and their technical speed is what saves you time.
Customers who arrive at the need
A customer's request is broken into parts, and around each part the people who can supply it come together. The direction is the opposite of self-marketing: you are not chasing a client, the request comes to you. (The mechanism is still being run in; matching is personally accompanied for now.)
How it happens
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You tell us what you know how to do, how many hours you have, and which terms matter to you. In a conversation, not a form.
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You find a rikma that fits — or publish a proposal of your own: "I will do this, on these terms".
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The partners approve, or propose different terms and talk them through with you. You answer, until everyone signs the same version.
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From the first hour you log, your share of future profit starts accruing. Transparent, and agreed in advance.
What is open right now
Or simply tell us
Going through listings is work in itself, and if you have been job-hunting these past months you have done enough of it. A short conversation, and we look on your behalf — or help you write a proposal of your own.
The questions asked here most
I am not technical. Will this be too complicated for me?
The way in is a conversation with a person, not a form. And if the system itself feels complicated, that is something you can say, and someone will go through it with you. Nobody expects you to learn it alone.
I am 68. Is this even relevant to me?
There is no retirement age here, because there is no employer setting one. What matters is how much you want and are able to give, and at what pace. Some of the people who join are looking for a few hours a week that are worth something — and that is enough.
I have a condition that needs accommodations. How do I raise it?
You write the terms yourself when you offer yourself — including hours, how you work, and what you need. It is not a special request submitted after you are accepted; it is part of the proposal everyone agrees to up front.
What if I cannot deliver what I committed to?
What you already contributed is recorded and stays yours — the share you accrued is not erased. And if a mission no longer fits, there is an orderly way to release it by agreement rather than simply disappearing.