Retirement: Wise and Witty Advice for Making It the Next Great Adventure All the events signify entering into unknown territories, losing the known and the familiar and going into uncharted waters. I've had more than a few life-changing experiences, like my first day of school or the day I left home for college
| TITLE | : | Retirement: Wise and Witty Advice for Making It the Next Great Adventure |
| AUTHOR | : | |
| RATING | : | 4.69 (167 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 0883968827 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Paperback |
| NUMBER of PAGES | : | 96 Pages |
| PUBLISH DATE | : | 0000-00-00 |
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This book is for all of you in your forties, fifties, and sixties who have aging parents, those of you in your sixties and seventies who are retired or thinking of retirement, and those of you in your eighties and nineties who have "been there and done that." I am seventy-eight and my husband is eighty. I used to think of myself as middle-aged but now realize that it is my children who are middle-aged. They're all in their fifties with kids in college. I think of retirement as the next great life-changing adventure. I've had more than a few life-changing experiences, like my first day of school or the day I left home for college or got married or had children or took my first job. All the events signify entering into unknown territories, losing the known and the familiar and going into uncharted waters. Although these waters have been well mapped by others, it is still the great unknown
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"My attraction to my professors kept me working to please them long after I might otherwise have given up." (p. If you teach Customer Service workshops, you will find Chapter 9 useful. (See: htt[]) But you know what? I bet Pollack doesn't even consider psychology a science.
Again, I'm totally on board with the mission of this book, but I wish it had a different flag-bearer.. Prof. Branca is most famous as the Brooklyn Dodger who gave up Bobby Thomson's "Shot Heard Around the World" home run to win the 1951 pennant for the New York Giants. The events within the book are touching, often heartbreaking, yet entertainingly presented. There’s also a culture that makes assumptions about masculine and feminine behavior, blatantly favors the former over the latter, and holds women accountable to a higher standard of behavior than boys both in their studies and thei
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