The Experience of Retirement
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (939 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0801472520 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Robert S. Weiss is a Senior Fellow in the Gerontology Institute and Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and a Lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. He is the author of Marital Separation, Learning from Strangers, and Staying the Course
For anyone approaching the age of retirement or already retired and looking for a more satisfying post-career life, for personnel managers, health care professionals, and all those who provide services for the retired, The Experience of Retirement will be an illuminating guidebook to this phase of life.. Weiss provides a detailed description of how some people plan their retirement, what life in retirement is like, and what makes for a fulfilling retirement. The interviews reveal the way in which retirement affects marriages and other familial relationships. When retirees rid their schedules of anything resembling the kinds of obligations that once had been imposed by work, they will experience a sometimes-uncomfortable absence of structure. Weiss makes vivid their experiences by presenting, in their own words, their descriptions of leaving their careers, considering what to do with their time, confronting issues of income in retirement, dealing, sometimes, with social isolation, and reorganizing their lives. Weiss concludes by presenting advice about retirement based on the actual experiences of retirees. Weiss shows us both retirement's benefits and its possible costs, both the relief retirees can feel once free of work's stresses and constraints and the discomfort that
. Weiss provides no magic formulas for retirement planning, just a better understanding of the emotional pitfalls that future retirees can anticipate, and that their family, friends and colleagues can help them combat. However, Weiss notes that volunteerism, part-time jobs, hobbies and, for some, a strong marriage can at least partially offset the social connections and sense of identity many people lose when they stop working. He contextualizes the confessional passages with sociological analysis, concluding that retirement planning requires more than just financial forethought. Based on interviews with 89 retirees from professional careers who live in the Boston suburbs, the book presents much of the data in the interviewees' own words. (Nov.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. This gives the
Need livelier experiences Dr. Cathy Goodwin As a career consultant and former academic, I am a great admirer of Robert Weiss. I continue to recommend Learning From Strangers to students who want to learn qualitative research. And I am of an age when retirement can be a realistic option for the current or near future.So naturally I looked forward to this book, hoping for new insights and ideas.Experience of Retirement is based on interviews with a sample of retired people in the Greater Boston area. As the author explains, most were chosen from middle class neighborhoods, although a few self-selected afte. should have read it sooner College professor excellent book on the experience of retirement. i only wish i had read it before i took early retirment from college teaching. makes me feel a lot saner reading the interviews in this book!. An excellent guide to important issues in retirement I will be using this book as a text in a course entitled "Exploring Retirement" in the Five College Learning in Retirement Program. I had been hunting for a useful book to discuss issues important to retirees, and when I found Robert Weiss's text (why do you put David Eckerdt as the author? He wrote the foreword, but is not the author.), I knew I had found the perfect book. Weiss is not only knowledgeable, but writes with great clarity and intersperses his text with telling commentary from his sources. It made me re-think many issues pertaining to my own retire