I’ve done it twice so far. Both times were great for me. I am on the cusp of doing it a third time. Hopefully, permanently this time. Keep in mind, I have an a

I’ve done it twice so far. Both times were great for me. I am on the cusp of doing it a third time. Hopefully, permanently this time. Keep in mind, I have an advantage of being a decent software engineer in the biggest industry boom in history. So it has always been easy for me to step back into the market when I wanted. The first time was for about 6 months to welcome a child. I had had enough of my job at the time and decided to stop without a plan. It was great and possibly planted the seed of future breaks. After 6 months I was ready to start again and got a job within a week or two. The second time was for 4 years. I moved my family to another continent. Eventually, moved back for personal reasons and so had to find employment again. This time I found a job through connections. I’m now financially at the point that I likely don’t need to work anymore and I’m itching to break free again so I’m likely to do it in the near future. My advice is to have enough saved up for at least a year and to jump. It’s liberating.