Please be a little specific in your plan, not just “travel”. Where do you want to travel ?
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Nothing! I’m super-serious, and I plan on doing exactly that for the following 6 months (quit my job, taking a break to address burnout and reorient): nothing.
By that, I mean I’ll allow myself to get as much sleep as I humanly can, try to feed myself healthier food (and more regularly), develop my hobbies (mini painting, playing the bass, sketching, writing), re-establish a semblance of a social life by exploring the city and its options, spending more time with friends… Pretty much just living life. No goals, no quotas, no deadlines, no performance metrics, no side-hustle, no Work™.
I plan on doing exactly that for the following 6 months (quit my job, taking a break to address burnout and reorient): nothing.
I wouldn’t call adressing a burnout a Sabbatical but a sick leave, a Sabbatical is choosing to take time off work for a project, not needing to take time off work for your mental health
Sorry that you’re there (And use the health issue as an explanation for the hole in your CV if they ask)
Agreed, expressed it incorrectly, the burnout is nowhere near the main reason for my taking time off. I needed to take a break from Adult Stuff. I mean, last time I did anything even remotely resembling a vacation/holiday was in 2014, now I’m taking my time.
Also, thank you so much for your kind words! Honestly, burnouts are just part of the routine at this point, I’ll be back on my feet in two-three months tops!
…get as much sleep as I humanly can, try to feed myself healthier food (and more regularly), develop my hobbies (mini painting, playing the bass, sketching, writing), re-establish a semblance of a social life by exploring the city and its options, spending more time with friends… Pretty much just living life.
That’s not nothing!
Thoroughly agreed, that’s what I call everything not viewed as immediately societally productive. More of a sarcastic reversal of the main complaint I’ve received throughout my life while just living it.
This is essentially what I did when I was laid off August last year. And it did take about that long to really be free of all the stress I’d racked up over the years in retail and other public customer-facing roles.
It really does take a while… Had a 9-month breakdown during the Pandemic, that one was exclusively for mental health care. I literally locked myself in my apartment and did nothing but eat, sleep, play vidya, get high, and have weekly therapy sessions for the entire duration.
It took 8 months to stop being anxious about not being stressed out. Used to wake up every morning with that sharp fear that I’d missed my daily meetings, then it would slowly turn into an “oh, shit, I’m not being Productive” jumble of self-loathing and panic.
That sounds beautiful.
thats not nothing
Hey, I actually did this! It was the best time of my life.
My aim was to migrate to south america, specialize in my career and get in/stay in shape.
I spent my days going to the gym, learning spanish, doing impromptu streams on twitch (I found a little community in my preperations to quit my job) , and I did travel to the country I wanted to migrate to and to NY to see a band that rarely plays live, visit my family in a different country and to visit my bud that lived in scandinavia.
I spent a month with my family preparing a portfolio.
I saved money during my career, about $16k over several years,and figured, if time is money, money is time.
I’m happy to answer any questions.
What country was it? Are you still there?
Uruguay, still there.
Did you have a job there or a clue ? Or you went to search for it ?
No job, no clue. At the start the perspective of some others and me were that it felt like I just fell out of the sky and tried to integrate into society.
I figured I’d either do immersion learning for spanish, or succeed and set up my life here.
The job came fairly easily, one of the companies from my first wave of applications accepted me.
What kind of job is it?
Visit Japan, South Korea, and certain EU countries I’ve never been to yet. Also probably spend 2 weeks back in my home country to visit immediate family and some friends.
Spend time with my kids and play video games while they’re at school
Bike trip on the Panericana from Punta Arenas to whatever is the northern most city in Alaska. Or if I have less time but cash to burn, do it in an ultra-light (A bit like Blyth Cape-town Cape North expedition in the 90’s http://www.trike-expeditions.com/CapeToCape/capetocape.html )
21,000 km, that’s a trip ! Very cool ! I didn’t know this trail ! Thanks
Book a private jet to go to California with my family. I’ve always really liked the idea of California and I also have a really good friend that lives there! 😃
Quality time with family then
A full year of multi month hikes across the world. I want to see it all and meet new people.
Probably a bikini inspector at my favourite beach… Seriously though the Bibbulmun Track.
I’ll go nuts and get myself hospitalized in a psych ward
I just quit yesterday with nothing else lined up. Gonna take a WHOLE MONTH for healing (isn’t it ridiculous how ridiculous that feels?) and then figure out my next move. I wanna build an app or something.
- Run a weekly in-person D&D campaign at my house, make dinner for the players.
- Play around with Arduino and ESP32 - home automation, robots and whatever.
- Do a lot of 3d design and printing - make little toys to give away with Halloween candy.
- Build model castles.
- Listen to classic old-time radio shows.
- Help with stage productions at a local theater.
- Write some Discord bots and npm modules.
- Participate in NaNoWriMo
Two chicks at the same time, man…
Buy a minivan, remove back seats. Add a bed and a battery bank, a small travel fridge and a hob for cooking then start camping at the nearest national parks. Refine my load out and start venturing farther and farther out.
I would absolutely have a blast being a full time stay-at-home Dad. We would hit every Park, library, zoo, and aquarium within a days drive.
Then during the summer, I’d pass their kids to their grandparents house so my wife and I could find a place to SCUBA for 2 weeks straight.
Develop my current podcast further, as well as work on at least 1 or 2 other podcast ideas I have. So many great ideas, so little time.
