I did. Not a year but 6 months. Combined it with building a business and working on my mental and physical health. + living in 3 countries. In terms of “hackin

I did. Not a year but 6 months. Combined it with building a business and working on my mental and physical health. + living in 3 countries. In terms of “hacking on my own things”, I highly recommend it. Not needing to work allowed me to make a lot of progress in 6 months. I tried different businesses, and was able to focus way better than “hacking in the side / after my 9-5”. In terms of physical and mental health, I also recommend it. Make sure to not work 16 hours a day and try to enjoy the free time as well. For me it meant going to the gym daily, doing more boxing sessions, and traveling a lot. Lastly, in terms of healing burnout, I’m not sure yet. I’m learning now that burnout can be triggered by different reasons. So if you are tired from corporate, take a year off, and then come back to corporate, I doubt your previous issues with corporate will just vanish. But as always, YMMV. Lastly lastly, didn’t have any issues with recruiters. On the contrary, it makes hell of a story. Good luck. Feel free to reach out or check my blog, where I posted some notes form my sabbatical. Links/email/socials are in my profile.