Description
Book SynopsisRetirement, as a major life transition, can be both thrilling and challenging in unexpected ways. Written by acclaimed authors in the fields of business leadership, careers, and work, this book goes beyond the typical financial and health-related advice on retirement, providing insights to guide you in broader areas of your life identity issues, relationship challenges, and questions about creating a new retirement life structure that works for you.
With lively, engaging writing, the book tells the detailed retirement transition stories of 14 people and draws on over 200 interviews with 120 people to explore how retiring involves a reconstruction of both the person and their life structure. You'll gain wisdom on the common themes and the wildly different approaches people take to the four big tasks of retiring: making the retirement decision, detaching from work both tangibly and psychologically, building a new life structure for retirement, and settling into a relatively