s after work some days, or comes home and socializes with his family. Hesaid his leisure time is any time with family and friends and away from work. He said heprobably spends three days during the week doing leisure activities for a few hours. Heworks to provide for his family so that they can enjoy life. He values his leisure time,because it take his mind away from all his responsibilities.The final stage is the near-retirement stage. In this stage an individual is justabout to call their career quits. The individual who took the survey is a white sixty yearold female, married with three children. She is a nurse and only works twenty five hoursa week. when she not working she is working in her garden, or doing things around herhouse. She considers that her leisure time and she says she has a lot of it. She said shehas leisure time everyday to either kick back and read a book, or just relax. She said shecannot wait to retire and go done to Florida and live on the beach. The main thing shesaid about retirement will be not having anymore stressful responsibilities she got fromwork. Out of the three stages I have found out that the beginning stage is the moststressful and takes up a lot of your time. There is a positive, because it seems to getbetter over the years. During the mid-career stage peoples focuses change, becausework is not the focal point of their lives. Families are getting started and that now shiftsa persons focus. During this stage, like I said before work is not the only priority, nowpeople are looking to take that vacation and taking shorter hours to be able to relax andspend time with their family. The near retirement stage is the best time to catch up onyour leisure time. People are not working long hours, they spending more time doingother activities. In this stage of a persons life they are trying to finalize what they aregoing to do with all their free time. The stages basically go from no time to...
