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I am on a 1 year sabbatical as of the start of this month. I wrote a "prologue" [1] summarizing my motivations, fears, and plans and I plan on posting an "epilo
by kaycebasques 5y ago
I am on a 1 year sabbatical as of the start of this month. I wrote a "prologue" [1] summarizing my motivations, fears, and plans and I plan on posting an "epilogue" at the end to compare my expectations with the actual outcome.
[1] https://kayce.basqu.es/sabbatical/prologue https://kayce.basqu.es/sabbatical/prologue
- Yenrabbit 5y agoGood luck, and I hope it goes well. I started a similar journey in February and am loving it so far, although I didn't have a set time period and am juuust starting to pick up little bits of work to ease back into things. I know experience can be hard to generalize, but for what it's worth some top things that seemed to work well for me were 1) Don't feel bad taking the first few weeks as complete 'off' time. The side project ideas can wait a bit while you relax :) 2) It's really fun working on 'inconsequential' things, especially if previously you were doing important/urgent stuff a lot. Things don't have to be monetize-able, useful or inspiring especially when you're on a break! Again, good luck :)
- cweill 5y agoNo way! I also created a prologue to my sabbatical from Google after 6.5 years: https://youtu.be/7vSBCZ1mnL4 https://youtu.be/7vSBCZ1mnL4 Great minds think alike, I suppose.