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Sto caricando le informazioni... Independence Day: What I Learned About Retirement from Some Who’ve Done It and Some Who Never Willdi Steve Lopez
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. As I embark on the "retirement" road, this book looked interesting. It gave me some good ideas and view points but I came to realize that after working for my self for the last 20 years, I am very much a self starter and if I am interested in something I give a go. I am just changing my focus of responsibilities and interests. Life is good. I wish we could come up with a better word than retirement, it sounds like going to sleep and dying. It is a change from paid to unpaid work and hopefully more options. Everyone I know, including myself, are busier and more active than ever now that we are "not being paid to do something". ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"Steve Lopez is insightful, ingenious, and often hilarious as he navigates one of life's biggest questions." -- Michael Connelly, New York Times bestselling author of The Dark Hours. Four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and longtime Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez explores the meaning of work and how it defines us in this captivating book that combines memoir, investigatory interviews, and practical application. Grappling with his own decision of whether to retire, Lopez uses his reporter skills not only to look inward but also to interview experts and peers to collect a variety of perspectives as he examines the true nature of a person's time, identity, and ultimate life satisfaction. In Independence Day, Lopez talks to those who have chosen to extend their working life to its (il)logical extreme -- people like Mel Brooks, still working at 94 -- those who have happily retired and reinvented themselves outside of the constraints of work, and those who would like to retire but can't because of financial constraints. He also turns to professionals on the matter, like two aging scientists, a geriatric specialist, and a psychiatrist, to understand the research-based reasons to retire. With his trademark poignancy, wisdom, and humor, Lopez establishes a useful polemic for himself and others in planning ahead, as he also evaluates questions of identity, financial limitations, and ultimately what to do with your life when the obituary pages are no longer filled with strangers. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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