Retirement for Workaholics: Life after Work in a Downsized Economy
An expert in retirement issues, aging, and social work shows how workaholics who have been downsized, forced into retirement, or burbaned out on their current jobs can remain actively engaged in meaningful projects and maintain their happiness.

A practical guide for workers who have been downsized or forced to take retirement before they're ready, Retirement for Workaholics: Life after Work in a Downsized Economy explains workaholic behavior, why it develops, and what can be done about it. Rather than taking a negative approach to work addictions, the book provides a sympathetic and logical way of understanding and coping.

Organized around research explaining work addictions and the problems workaholics have coping with retirement, the book also includes numerous personal stories from workaholics and case studies of work-addicted individuals. These stories illustrate the effects of work addiction on self, friends, and loved ones, as well as how people have dealt with the overwhelming need to work. More positively, it offers concrete suggestions for dealing with postretirement issues, such as loneliness, boredom, and substance abuse, and for finding satisfaction and fulfillment whether through volunteer activities, a new career, or the pursuit of previously shelved passions.

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Retirement for Workaholics: Life after Work in a Downsized Economy
An expert in retirement issues, aging, and social work shows how workaholics who have been downsized, forced into retirement, or burbaned out on their current jobs can remain actively engaged in meaningful projects and maintain their happiness.

A practical guide for workers who have been downsized or forced to take retirement before they're ready, Retirement for Workaholics: Life after Work in a Downsized Economy explains workaholic behavior, why it develops, and what can be done about it. Rather than taking a negative approach to work addictions, the book provides a sympathetic and logical way of understanding and coping.

Organized around research explaining work addictions and the problems workaholics have coping with retirement, the book also includes numerous personal stories from workaholics and case studies of work-addicted individuals. These stories illustrate the effects of work addiction on self, friends, and loved ones, as well as how people have dealt with the overwhelming need to work. More positively, it offers concrete suggestions for dealing with postretirement issues, such as loneliness, boredom, and substance abuse, and for finding satisfaction and fulfillment whether through volunteer activities, a new career, or the pursuit of previously shelved passions.

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Retirement for Workaholics: Life after Work in a Downsized Economy

Retirement for Workaholics: Life after Work in a Downsized Economy

by Morley D. Glicken
Retirement for Workaholics: Life after Work in a Downsized Economy

Retirement for Workaholics: Life after Work in a Downsized Economy

by Morley D. Glicken

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An expert in retirement issues, aging, and social work shows how workaholics who have been downsized, forced into retirement, or burbaned out on their current jobs can remain actively engaged in meaningful projects and maintain their happiness.

A practical guide for workers who have been downsized or forced to take retirement before they're ready, Retirement for Workaholics: Life after Work in a Downsized Economy explains workaholic behavior, why it develops, and what can be done about it. Rather than taking a negative approach to work addictions, the book provides a sympathetic and logical way of understanding and coping.

Organized around research explaining work addictions and the problems workaholics have coping with retirement, the book also includes numerous personal stories from workaholics and case studies of work-addicted individuals. These stories illustrate the effects of work addiction on self, friends, and loved ones, as well as how people have dealt with the overwhelming need to work. More positively, it offers concrete suggestions for dealing with postretirement issues, such as loneliness, boredom, and substance abuse, and for finding satisfaction and fulfillment whether through volunteer activities, a new career, or the pursuit of previously shelved passions.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780313384868
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 05/05/2010
Pages: 190
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Morley D. Glicken, PhD, has been a professor, director, and dean of schools of social work and is currently on faculty at Arizona State University in Phoenix, AZ.

Table of Contents

Preface
I. Understanding Work-Addicted Behavior
1 Introduction: Hard Worker or Workaholic?
2 Descriptions of Workaholics
3 The Physical and Emotional Impact of Work Addiction
4 The 10 Irrational Ideas That Get Workaholics into Emotional Difficulty
II. Preretirement Planning
5 Are You Ready to Retire?
6 Developing a Preretirement Plan
III. The Retirement Decision
7 Involving Family Members in Retirement Decisions
8 The Decision to Retire
IV. After Retirement: Repairing the Impact of Work Addiction on Physical and Mental Health
9 Loneliness
10 Anxiety and Depression
11 Substance Abuse
12 Health
V. After Retirement: Repairing Personal Relationships with Family and Loved Ones
13 Repairing Intimate Relationships
14 Repairing Relationships with Family and Friends
VI. After Retirement: Work Opportunities and Dealing with Leisure Time
15 Cycling Back to Work and Dealing with Leisure Time
VII. Changing Work-Addicted Behavior
16 Professional Help to Treat Work Addictions
17 Final Words
Index
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