Pondering Everyday Life by Robert A. Stebbins

Author:Robert A. Stebbins
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030359225
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Financial

Major changes in regular income and debt can affect a person’s leisure in myriad ways. For example, a lucrative promotion or other major raise in salary at work might now enable purchase of a coveted membership in an elite golf club and hence increased availability of tee times, a lengthy world tour of famous birding sites, or an acquisition of an expensive painting for one’s private collection. Likewise, a demotion, firing, or major cut in salary can dash hope for that membership, birding tour, or purchase of the painting. At this turning point in the life course, the first sets the participant off in a new, free-time direction, whereas the second forces this person to continue following the present route if not reduce significantly leisure expenditures.

Nonetheless, serious leisure, of which the above are examples, is by no means always expensive. That is, there are commonly no financial turning points for, say, geocaching, collecting sea shells, choral and quartet singing, writing poetry and novels, and working as a local stand-up comic. Nor are there for many casual leisure activities costs so punishing as to constitute a financial turning point in a person’s life course. Watching television every day, routinely strolling in a park, observing the play of the waves on the sea whenever the weather permits, and chatting weekly at a neighborhood kaffeeklatsch are among the many examples. Naturally, expensive play (e.g., roulette, keno), entertainment (e.g., best seats at professional sports cup playoffs), and ocean cruises can amount to positive or negative turning points.

This section is but a small survey of financial turning points possibly encountered over the modern life course. We may be led there by divorce, serious car accident, major health problems, unexpected family demands, and so on. In fact, many financial turning points are adventitious, affecting the life course both intensely and unpredictably. Who expected to win the lottery? Who expected to be diagnosed with cancer? Consequently, these kinds of contingencies are not usually part of our PEA, because we avoid thinking about them or they are too vague to force us to act.

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