Life After Teaching - Softcover

Roadburg, Dr Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0973002727 ISBN 13: 9780973002720

Publisher: UTD Library Publications, 2006

Synopsis

Life After Teaching is the self-help version of the Life After Teaching Retirement Workshop. It provides truly unique insights, practical guidance, and strategies to ensure that your retirement will be worthwhile and enjoyable. We went to the experts. Not to the self-proclaimed retirement experts, but to 800 retired educators (your retirement mentors) who share their experiences, impressions and advice on retirement. This research is current, unique and exclusive to Life After Teaching. The workbook includes our exclusive self-help Life Goal Planning Workshop to ensure that satisfactions lost from work will be met in retirement, it provides the crucial link between Life Goal and financial planning to truly personalize your financial plan, and much, much more. Life After Teaching is an easy-to-read and practical book that reflects the needs of today's retirees and elevates retirement lifestyle planning to a new standard.

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About the Author

As founder and President of the Second Career Program, Dr. Alan Roadburg has a unique blend of academic and practical experience and has literally written the book on retirement lifestyle education. He earned a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Edinburgh and was a tenured Professor at Dalhousie University (1978 - 1985), and an Adjunct Professor at Simon Fraser University in the Department of Gerontology. His academic experience includes teaching courses in Social Gerontology (the study of aging), Retirement Planning, Social Psychology, and the Sociology of Work and Leisure. Dr. Roadburg conducted several major research projects on retirees, and has written extensively on the retirement experience.

Dr. Roadburg changed careers in 1986 and developed the Second Career Program. Specializing in lifestyle retirement planning, the Second Career Program has conducted hundreds of retirement workshops with literally thousands of private and public sector employees. He has developed a strong rapport with and understanding of the needs of pre- and post-retirees, and their clients include General Motors, Unilever, George Brown College, Seneca College, Northumberland Board of Education, RCMP, Bell, Canadian Medical Association, and many more. Alan is a frequent workshop host and keynote speaker. His other publications include, Re-tire With A Dash, Life After Medicine, and What Are You Doing After Work?

Edition details

• Publisher: UTD Library Publications
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0973002727
• ISBN 13: 9780973002720
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 234