Wasn't a founder at the time so feel free to ignore the rest of this, but…after five soul crushing, burn out generating, years as the main guy in the dot com er

Wasn't a founder at the time so feel free to ignore the rest of this, but…after five soul crushing, burn out generating, years as the main guy in the dot com era I took a ~7 month sabbatical. It was awesome, totally reset and cleared my head, allowed me to mentally review what I’d learned and separate the good lessons from the bad. But I did not structure the down time well and felt that I wasted about a third of the time I was out. The biggest downside was that on returning…people wanted me to just go back to what I was doing and I wasn't interested in that at all. My advice: figure out where you want to go first, even if only as a hazy general notional direction. Is your goal to return to the organization renewed and ready to keep going on what you're doing? Or to find a different path? Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37827668 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37827668