Wow, this is like a club. I got burned out at 26 after three years straight with no time off and traveling all over for work (I was platinum with Delta at the

Wow, this is like a club. I got burned out at 26 after three years straight with no time off and traveling all over for work (I was platinum with Delta at the time). I took a year off and started doing all the things I had alway wished I had the time for. When I came back to work the next year, I was much less intense and was able to manage a better balance between work and everything else. However, I was also much less interested in "computers" than I had been all my life. For a few years, I left work at the office and found other hobbies to take up my spare time. That interest has since come back in a very strong way, but I think the mental break I took over that time has helped me out by making me a more well-rounded person. I'm planning to take another sabbatical towards the end of the year. This time, it's being planned and will not be an emergency.