Or late 20s. The best thing I ever did was turn down a management path cherry job to take a leave absence and, uh, backpack around the EU then hike in India.

Or late 20s. The best thing I ever did was turn down a management path cherry job to take a leave absence and, uh, backpack around the EU then hike in India. I was supposed to be gone 3 months. I came back after 10 to a new life. Best thing I ever did! * except also somehow convince my wife to wait it out for me those same 10 months. We now have two girls in SF public school.