Category Archives: Retirement transition

  1. Summer Holidays

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    July 4, 2016 by Jean

    Nothing highlights the differences between the summers of my teaching years and the summers of my retirement years more than …
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  2. Retirement, Leisure and Quality of Life

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    February 25, 2016 by Jean

    Our understanding of retirement is bound up with our understanding of leisure. The dream of retirement is the dream of …
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  3. Taking Stock: Time

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    January 14, 2016 by Jean

    As my second year of retirement begins, I am taking stock of how things are going. My last post (Taking …
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  4. Taking Stock: Finances

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    January 3, 2016 by Jean

    As the old year turned into the new, I ended my first full year of retirement and began the second. …
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  5. Not One Thing

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    November 6, 2015 by Jean

    Recently, I got into a conversation about retirement with an old acquaintance I ran into at the Sunday farmers’ market. …
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  6. Productivity, Sociability, Relaxation

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    July 22, 2015 by Jean

    One year into my retirement, I am still trying to find the right balance among productivity, sociability and relaxation. Here’s …
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  7. Spontaneity and Singing

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    April 29, 2015 by Jean

    During my work years, I managed time and competing demands for that time through systematic (and often rigid) scheduling. In …
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I am Jean Potuchek, a professional sociologist who has just stepped into the next phase of my life, retirement, after more than thirty years of college teaching. This blog is about my experience of that new phase of life.

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