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Last week I talked to a person who quit his job to do some soul-searching. He spent last 8 month traveling, helping a few startups, living in San-Francisco(for
by eatitraw 12y ago
Last week I talked to a person who quit his job to do some soul-searching. He spent last 8 month traveling, helping a few startups, living in San-Francisco(for a month), and doing some fun part-time work.
His advice was "have a few goals". You can quit your job and have a few fun months, but after that you'll have to return back to your previous life and problems that you had will be likely unresolved.
I am curious: what kind of change happened to your friends' lives? I'd like to take a few months off work, but I am considering a more directed approach than funemployment. Funemployment is certainly great for some people, but probably not for me.
- ar_turnbull 12y agoI think the biggest thing was that they learned they could do it. There's a huge boost in confidence when you can pull off something like that. One is considering quitting his cushy office job and becoming a carpenter. He doesn't feel like he needs the safety net anymore. That was my take on the original article too — it's important to have personal goals. That might be "getting to gold in SC2" but it could also be "survive a solo backpacking trip". The point is there's more too life than working.