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Zeke,
I am a full-time business consultant, working for a multinational firm.
My experience is that you have a difficult task ahead. Believe or not, people really like to pay consultancies for their work. When someone want to hire a consultant they also want some kind of "badge" that goes with the work, therefore if things go wrong he can say "but XXX Consulting" recommends it.
Also qualifications are very important for getting the assignment. We put a lot of work in preparing a good "qual pack" before approaching potential customers.
I have seen similar experiences of what you propose done by retired or semi-retired professionals that want to remain active and try to do consulting for free, but I haven't seen that many sucesses.
I think your best bet would be to approach a consultancy firm and get some kind of collaboration agreement where they use your services on an as-need basis. We have some of those.
Just my 2 cents (Euro).
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