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better titles: "i had a bad vacation", "my mini-retirement misconception" i appreciate this person's thoughts, they're very insightful. but to try and use hi

by noodle 17y ago

better titles: "i had a bad vacation", "my mini-retirement misconception" i appreciate this person's thoughts, they're very insightful. but to try and use his individual situation and experiences to represent the set of all mini-retirements is fallacious.

salvadors 17y ago
What's with this trend of calling a vacation a "mini-retirement" anyway? Three months may be longer than average for a vacation, but lots of people have taken that sort of time out between jobs without needing to call it a "mini-retirement".
- noodle 17y ago
  i think its a misconception (see what i did there?) about the concept. "mini-retirement" is supposed to refer to a longer period of time where you're taking a break from your primary career, but you have plans to go back. i'd define it as at least 6 months. it doesn't have to involve travel, and you don't have to stop working or engaging yourself in projects. just like being actually retired. /my $0.02, at least
  - jwhitlark 17y ago
    I think it's part of our culture adapting from the idea of one career and a retirement at the end of it, to several, with breaks in between. The semantics are interesting: it probably would have been called a sabbatical 20 years ago.
    - noodle 17y ago
      it still can be referred to as that, except, in my experience, there's an understanding that with a sabbatical, you're arranging things so that you come back to the same job. i don't think thats necessarily the case with a mini-retirement. semantics, i know.
    - salvadors 17y ago
      That's a good explanation. I quite like the concept of calling a break between careers a mini-retirement. In this case, though, it doesn't seem to have been anything like that, but just a simple three month extended vacation.
plesn 17y ago
This guy had vacations, he had a trip, but he did not travel. He just brought his "occidental" mental conception of living elsewhere, he didn't even seem to have really met and lived with other people.
- noodle 17y ago
  i can agree with this, too.
aichcon 17y ago
I notice a few people using "guy" to refer to the writer here ... unless I'm missing something, I believe she is a woman (Tina).
- wglb 17y ago
  Tina http://thinksimplenow.com/about http://thinksimplenow.com/about is both passionate and keen.

by noodle 17y ago

salvadors 17y ago

What's with this trend of calling a vacation a "mini-retirement" anyway? Three months may be longer than average for a vacation, but lots of people have taken that sort of time out between jobs without needing to call it a "mini-retirement".

noodle 17y ago
i think its a misconception (see what i did there?) about the concept. "mini-retirement" is supposed to refer to a longer period of time where you're taking a break from your primary career, but you have plans to go back. i'd define it as at least 6 months. it doesn't have to involve travel, and you don't have to stop working or engaging yourself in projects. just like being actually retired. /my $0.02, at least
- jwhitlark 17y ago
  I think it's part of our culture adapting from the idea of one career and a retirement at the end of it, to several, with breaks in between. The semantics are interesting: it probably would have been called a sabbatical 20 years ago.
  - noodle 17y ago
    it still can be referred to as that, except, in my experience, there's an understanding that with a sabbatical, you're arranging things so that you come back to the same job. i don't think thats necessarily the case with a mini-retirement. semantics, i know.
  - salvadors 17y ago
    That's a good explanation. I quite like the concept of calling a break between careers a mini-retirement. In this case, though, it doesn't seem to have been anything like that, but just a simple three month extended vacation.

plesn 17y ago

This guy had vacations, he had a trip, but he did not travel. He just brought his "occidental" mental conception of living elsewhere, he didn't even seem to have really met and lived with other people.

noodle 17y ago
i can agree with this, too.

aichcon 17y ago

I notice a few people using "guy" to refer to the writer here ... unless I'm missing something, I believe she is a woman (Tina).

wglb 17y ago
Tina http://thinksimplenow.com/about http://thinksimplenow.com/about is both passionate and keen.