355 - Professional Development Workshop. Should I Retire? Late Career Decision Making

Session Submission Type: Workshop

Description

This workshop is designed for late career sociologists who are contemplating retirement. Making the decision to end a career of teaching, research, or practice is a difficult one, involving issues of finances, health, family and/or partner, identity, alternative pursuits, and, sometimes, relocation to a new community. The workshop will include a panel of sociologists who have already made the decision, either to keep working at their current employment location, or to retire. In addition, a representative of TIAA-CREF will discuss financial considerations. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss their own concerns relating to the retirement decision, and post-meeting follow-up activities will be considered.

Sub Unit

• Professional Development Workshop

Session Organizer

• Rosalyn Benjamin Darling, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Leader

• Rosalyn Benjamin Darling, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Co-Leaders

• Peter J. Stein, University of North Carolina

• Jon Darling, University of Pittsburgh

Panelists

• Peter M. Hall, Colorado State University

• Eva Kahana, Case Western Reserve Univ.

• Elinore E. Lurie

• Robert Perrucci, Purdue University

• Bodil Stevns, TIAA