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Dans une société où se multiplient les courants prônant une retraite hâtive et où notre rapport au boulot paraît de plus en plus indissociable de la quête du bonheur, René Bolduc s'intéresse à la relation intrinsèque que nous entretenons avec le travail depuis les débuts de l'ère industrielle. Faut-il souhaiter travailler le moins possible? Comment se fait-il que certaines personnes s'investissent tant dans leur travail alors que d'autres travaillent aussi peu qu'elles peuvent se le permettre? Comment les nouvelles technologies transforment-elles notre perception du travail? Comment utilisons-nous notre temps soi-disant libre? Est-ce que le travail nous empêche de mener une vie significative ou, au contraire, contribue-t-il à notre épanouissement? Voici quelques-unes des questions que René Bolduc, professeur de philosophie, aborde dans cet essai exploratoire où la pensée de l'auteur croise celle d'autres théoriciens pour ouvrir des pistes de réflexion qui seront certainement utiles à quiconque s'est déjà demandé, par delà les évidences, Mais pourquoi travailler?

Plan for your financial future with this interactive guide to everything there is to know about mindful spending, strict saving regimes, clever investments, and sustainable living so you can achieve financial independence early and, ultimately, live a more simple, happier life.F.I.R.E—Financial Independence, Retire Early—is a popular lifestyle movement amongst millennials and Gen Xers. The F.I.R.E. Planner is the first illustrated, interactive guide to putting this philosophy into practice. This accessible book teaches you everything there is to know about strict savings, smart investing, mindful spending, and living sustainably to ensure financial independence for a much simpler and happier life. Start planning for your future life today and make the most of your current income so you can live the life of your dreams.

What if a happier life was only a few simple choices away? A successful entrepreneur living in Southern California, Scott Rieckens had built a “dream life”: a happy marriage, a two-year-old daughter, a membership to a boat club, and a BMW in the driveway. But underneath the surface, Scott was creatively stifled, depressed, and overworked trying to help pay for his family's beach-town lifestyle. Then one day, Scott listened to a podcast interview that changed everything. Five months later, he had quit his job, convinced his family to leave their home, and cut their expenses in half. Follow Scott and his family as they devote everything to FIRE (financial independence retire early), a subculture obsessed with maximizing wealth and happiness. Filled with inspiring case studies and powerful advice, Playing with FIRE is one family's journey to acquire the one thing that money can't buy: a simpler — and happier — life. Based on the documentary

A practical action guide for financial independence and early retirement from the popular Our Next Life blogger.In today's work culture, we're expected to hustle around the clock. But what if you could escape the traditional path and get on one that doesn't require working full-time until age 65? What if you could wake up every day without an alarm clock and do the things you love most? Tanja Hester and her husband Mark left their crazed careerist lifestyle to live their dream life in Lake Tahoe, retiring early from high-stress careers. Now Tanja will help you map out a customized plan for freedom and make it easy to succeed, whether you're good at math and budgeting -- or not!Work Optional is more than just a financial plan: it's a plan for your whole life -- designed by you, not by an employer or clients. Tanja walks you through envisioning your dream life, accounting for variables such as health care and children, protecting yourself from recessions and future unknowns, and achieving a purpose-filled early retirement, semi-retirement, or career intermission with completely doable, non-penny-pinching steps. You can live a happier, more meaningful life, free from the daily grind. Regardless of where you are in your career, Work Optionalwill get you there.

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By 36, with fewer advantages than most, Dianne Nahirny achieved early retirement without compromising her middle-class lifestyle-and on an average yearly salary of under $20,000. In Stop working... start living, Dianne covers financial concepts through humorous anecdotes of her family's influence on her money-handling skills. Stories about her jobs, her investments, homes, and extravagances demonstrate her finesse and her blunders. Each chapter concludes with a point form summary.

During the last decade worries about population aging, increases in national expenditures for the elderly, and the trend toward early retirement have aroused new concerns about the future of old-age security. Myles and Quadagno have assembled a collection of original essays that examine how different countries have responded to these issues. The essays in Part I explore the recent politics of old age in Great Britain, Canada, Poland, Scandinavia, West Germany, France, the Netherlands, Japan, and Australia. They demonstrate that while, during the Reagan and Thatcher era, the United States and Great Britain forged debates about old-age policies around a neo-conservative agenda, other countries facing similar matters followed different paths. In Part II, the authors examine how transformations in labor- market practices are gradually altering the status of older workers and with it our conventional understanding of old age. The reconstruction of the international division of labor, the shift of employment from goods to services, and the adoption of new, knowledge-intensive technologies are changing the economic and political basis of the organization of old age. As we move toward the next century, these essays provide a starting point for a new generation of studies in the political economy of aging.

L'histoire de la retraite et de la vieillesse réserve bien des surprises. Aujourd'hui trois problèmes majeurs apparaissent. Les départs à la retraite de plus en plus précoces bouleversent le schéma traditionnel des âges de la vie. L'allongement de la longévité modifie les relations entre toutes les générations. Enfin, de ces deux données essentielles résulte l'apparition d'un'nouvel âge'. Mais qu'en sera-t-il demain dans une société vieillissante dont le taux de natalité est en-dessous du seuil de renouvellement?