GETTING TO LIKE YOUR LIFE IN RETIREMENT IN THE LIGHT OF THE OPINIONS OF RETIRED ACADEMICS AT KRAKÓW'S UNIVERSITIES

<ns3:p>This aricle poses the question whether leisure time in retirement contributes to well-being or creates dramatic experience, and investigates the problem among Cracow retired academic teachers. Besides, it indicates the current demographic transition, such as ageing population, which results in a gradual shift in the labour market. Further, it states that the baby boom generation is believed to benefit from the pension scheme or expected to in the future. Also, our ideas about retirement, as well as individual expectations tend to evolve. Thus, we witness some new social patterns of retirement activity. Still, we face the problem of leisure time evaluation, either as self-fulfilment and self-satisfaction or unfulfiment, lack of social participatin, and finally withdrawal from the local environment. The qualitative research on activity patterns among retired university teachersand the academic community of Krakow was conducted in 2023-2024. The study of the transition to retirement is accompanied by demographic prospects.</ns3:p>