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A Guide to Take the Weirdness Out of Retirement (Udemy.com)

Proactively Mapping Your Retirement Identity, Lifestyle, and Purpose

4.5
60 reviews

Created by: Patrice Jenkins

Last updated April 2017

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What you will learn

  • Develop a greater understanding of how to prepare for the social/psychological side of retirement-a topic that is not easily addressed by a financial equation.
  • Gain understanding of retirement through real-life exercises that personalize your retirement lifestyle.
  • Make a more informed decision about when is the "right" time to retire.
  • Take the "weirdness" out of retirement by knowing how to bring the "best of work" to the "best of retirement."
  • Discover how to keep consistency in your life by maintaining lifestyle patterns, routines, structure and work-related values into your retirement.

How it compares

Against the other 33 rated Udemy courses in Personal Finance on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 33% of them
  • Reviews60#33 of 34 by number of reviews
  • Length2.5 hoursshorter than 57% of them
  • Last updatedApril 2017earlier than 96% of them

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Course Description

Just as you plan for your financial well being in retirement, it's equally as important to prepare for your social and psychological well being. That's what this course is all about: Creating your identity beyond the work role, designing a lifestyle that fits with who you are and who you are becoming, and finding purpose in meaningful activities.

This course explores what you will need in retirement that will create a sense of meaning and purpose at a time when you're no longer defined by your work title. So much of the "weirdness" of retirement comes from losing our sense of direction. We'll explore how to create a new life structure by embracing new roles, being involved in work that is greater than ourselves, and recreating conditions that contributed to our happiness at work.

If you're not interested in every day feeling like Saturday and Sunday, then you are going to love learning about new organizing concepts that are much bigger than a life of leisure. If you're not ready to give up work completely, you will be glad to learn how to regain the psychological benefits of work. And if you're worried that you don't have something that you are passionate about doing in retirement, in this course you only need to be curious and have an explorer mindset.

If you are worried about the decision to retire, you will find support that will help you feel prepared to step into retirement. This is especially important if you are in a work environment where it is not "safe" to talk about retirement. This major life decision and transition is too complex to go it alone. In this course you will find the support you need without having to "show your cards" at work. 
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Instructor Details

Patrice Jenkins

Patrice Jenkins, Ph.D. is a consultant and frequent speaker on topics related to career and retirement transitions. Patrice holds a masters degree in counseling and a doctorate degree in industrial and organizational psychology. She is the author of “What Will I Do All Day? Wisdom to get you Over Retirement and on with Living!” and "It's Still Good: Dreams Don't Have Expiration Dates!"

Dr. Jenkins' expertise is in the social-psychological side of retirement—a subject that can’t easily be addressed with a financial strategy or equation. As an organizational psychologist, Jenkins applies her research on thriving at work, retirement research, and happiness studies to help individuals prepare for retirement and design rewarding retirement lifestyles. 

Dr. Jenkins offers organizational consulting to design programs that support employees into their retirement years. 




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4.5

60 ratings on Udemy

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By Janet Davies on 6/1/2024

This is a great course for helping with planning your retirement, and for reviewing where you are at following retirement. There is very little help and support for the non-financial side of retirement so this course is a very welcome resource. I am at the Reorientation stage and found my own way of navigating the earlier stages - so much of what Patrice says and advises resonated with me. I wish I had found this course in the Pre-Retirement stage - it would have been invaluable!

By Judy on 8/24/2023

Absolutely. Patrice is on target with the exact feelings and concerns and the peeling some layers to find focus yet a calmness in seeking new paths to follow.

By Henry Schulman on 4/6/2022

I am really enjoying your course. It's as if you are in my head. Many / most of your thoughts and ideas match mine. I am also sharing this course with my wife who will be retiring in 3 - 4 years so she understands what I am going through and gets a preview of what she will probably be going through.

By Lisa Sipe on 7/15/2020

Enjoyed Patrice’s presentation style. Her approach of offering a variety of view points or constructs through which to consider retirement was thought provoking. The non-interactive format was incredibly convenient and the only thing that keeps this from being a perfect experience.

By Deborah Gooden Gooden on 5/20/2019

It is a good way for me to review my thinking about being retired. I like the question what do you want to be available to?

By Robert Paski on 3/18/2019

Good course on how to move into retirement. Got me thinking in a different direction than what I was on after reading other books and taking a retirement seminar at OLLI.

By Rebekah K Sumrall on 1/17/2019

I read her book first and this is a great follow up to her book

By James E Gentry on 6/24/2018

I enjoyed taking the class over a period of a few days. I am 58 and between 4-6 years from retirement. I am starting my search of "whats next." Patrice presented lots of useful information and practical exercises that made me think of things I might like to explore during retirement. As I get closer to retirement, I will likely go back to this course.

By Georgana Cochran on 5/15/2017

Patrice has identified specific areas that should be considered prior to retirement and I appreciate the direction this gives me.

By Danielle Gross on 4/15/2017

I love the fresh perspective that Patrice brings to this side of retirement! I'm tired of people saying everyday is like Saturday and Sunday, or keeping busy with meaningless busyness. I need more and I can see that Patrice believes retirement can be much more. I'm glad she's provided this guide. (FYI--I learned that videos are best viewed on highest resolution.)

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