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This may not be what you want to hear but I'd suggest that you don't take such a break. Get a job and learn stuff while getting paid for it. Or however you do
by borplk 9y ago
This may not be what you want to hear but I'd suggest that you don't take such a break.
Get a job and learn stuff while getting paid for it.
Or however you do it, don't go full-on student mode and stopping your income. Someone in your position doesn't have to stop making money just to learn.
If you insist on taking the break I'd spend the time on something with a bigger financial potential. For example make a SaaS that could potentially earn you $1k/month after a while.
- vazirthrowaway 9y agoThanks for your input. Can you please elaborate why you think it might not be a good idea to to be in full student mode (if one ignores the monetary aspects and the risk of not finding a job soon after the break)
- borplk 9y agoIt's in a way a "compromise". Someone with as much experience as you has the luxury of being able to learn AND get paid for it too so I think you should utilise that. Also from a career perspective to other people and employers it will probably not look very good. People may assume you were not good enough so you had to stop and become a student again. As wrong as that would be, people's perception is shallow and they don't have much information to work with, they'll make judgements. And as I said if you insist I think it doesn't hurt to concentrate your efforts on something with financial potential, just because you can. And something that you can "show". I think you'd be better off fitting the study in between other stuff in an organic way rather than just saying ok let's stop the world, go learn some stuff and come back again.