You can negotiate all sorts of things when you join a company. Previously I've worked every 4th week off. These days I do contracts which provides some nice g

You can negotiate all sorts of things when you join a company. Previously I've worked every 4th week off. These days I do contracts which provides some nice gaps if you don't try and line something up before the current one finished. It's been possible to take a year off - I was using that to work on my own projects, so that went on my c.v.