What Do You Want To Do When You Grow Up?

This practical and inspiring guide to negotiating lifes passagesespecially career change and retirementtakes readers on a richly rewarding voyage of self-discovery. The ultimate destination: personal as well as professional fulfillment. A much-needed manual in this era of widespread layoffs, corporate downsizing, and a workforce in seemingly perpetual transition.

Dorothy Cantor, Psy.D., has been practicing psychology for twenty-five years and is a former president of the American Psychological Association

Acknowledgments	p. XI
The Capacity to Grow, the Need to Choose: An Introduction	p. 3
Retirement Dreams, Job Realities	p. 20
What I Will be Doing When I Am No Longer Spending Most of My Time At the Work I Am Doing Now
My Job Realities--Fifteen Good Things (Besides Money) I Get from My Job
Well-Being and the American Adult: What Is It? Who Has It?	p. 47
The Good Life, Well Lived
Six Dimensions of Adult Well-Being
On the Job, After the Job: Well-Being or Burnout
Purposeful Activity, Serious Leisure, and the Power of Flow
Finding the Fit: Four Stories
From "I'm Going to be an Astronaut" to "I've Got to Pick A Major": Preparing for the "Real World"	p. 69
What I First Longed to Be When I Grew Up
My Obsessions and Reigning Passions
Lessons on the Home Front
My Heroes, My Favorite or Most Unforgettable People
College Days: The Pluses and the Minuses
From Getting a Job to Having Arrived: The World of Work	p. 106
My First Job--What and Why
My Career-Building Years: Steps, Turning Points, and Transitions
What I Loved, What I Hated; What I Was Good At, What I Was Not Good At
Reflecting: The View from the Great Plateau	p. 141
The Balancing Act: My Work, My Family, and the Rest
My Success Equation
What I Want to do When I Grow Up: A Plan for the Rest of the Story	p. 159
What I Want, What I Need: The Ten Motivators
How I'll Get There, What Might Stop Me: The Ten Activators
My Retirement Dreams, Revisited
Getting Started, Again	p. 213
Honeymooning
Testing New Waters
The Small Voice of "I Really Should ..."
The Resistance Factor
The Second Wind
Goal Setting and the Good-Enough Factor
A Touch of Inspiration
Afterword	p. 241
Notes	p. 247
Index	p. 251
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What Do You Want To Do When You Grow Up? Starting the Next Chapter of Your Life

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