I did a total of four 3-month sabbaticals - three of them via quitting, one time I got fired and was too burned out to immediately look for a job. The most com

I did a total of four 3-month sabbaticals - three of them via quitting, one time I got fired and was too burned out to immediately look for a job. The most common reaction was surprise that I don't have anything lined up mixed with only half-joking displays of envy that I have the means to just do nothing for this long(which was somewhat of a headscratcher considering we all had similar salaries). Nevertheless my current employer(or actually middleman, since I'm a contractor) is fine with them as long as they're betweeen projects - I need to notify them two months in advance and can pick up where I left. No guarantee that I'll end up in the same organisation though. I wholeheartedly recommend doing them at least once every three years. Not only you get to focus on other things in life than just work, you can time your job hunt for the hottest moments of the year - typically last months of each quarter except for Q2.