Anyone here take a 1yr hiatus from work?

[stockstradr]

Here’s my funny story about asking for two months off.

My boss didn’t much care for me. I worked for a global mobile phone handset provider with an R&D center in San Diego.

It was a slow time for engineering at our R&D center; i figured good time to ask for a sabatical. I was a principle staff engr so had earned it.

I asked my boss, “I would really like to take eight weeks off for a trip through Europe that my wife and I have been dreaming about for ten years. I’m giving you a couple months advance notice. You’re such a great boss, I really do appreciate your consideration of this request” *SMOOCH* *SMOOCH* …gratuitous ass kissing

He says, “NOPE! We are so busy. Sorry. We need you so much. We cannot afford to have you away for two full months”

Now, Piggington readers, are you ready for the ironic punch line that God bestowed upon this absurd scene?

A few weeks later the GM of that R&D center announces,

“All twelve hundred of you are laid off in ninety days. Now we cutting the center down to five hundred jobs, so this means we’ll have a free-for-all where you all scramble and scrap by re-applying for those five hundred remaining jobs. Sounds like fun, eh? Ready, Set, Go!”

So I had three months left of work, and ZERO job security.

I walked in my boss’ office and said, “You know that two month vacation request of mine you rejected? Well, I’m TAKING IT. All eight weeks.”

He says, “It doesn’t sound like you are ASKING my permission?”

I say, “I’m not.”

He says, “Well, I guess that’s OK for you to go for the two months! What am i gonna do after all, lay you off TWICE?”

(He had gotten his own walking papers himself, and in fact turned out did NOT get one of the five hundred remaining jobs.)

Now I am implying that I went ahead and enjoyed two months backpacking in Europe while I should have been searching for my next job, since I only had a few weeks remaining once back from vacation before getting laid off…ahh but I did have several months severance pay coming…it all worked out in the end. Found a job up in the Bay Area.

[patb]

i took a year travelled the world, kind of screwed up things
for a while but it was worth it.

[patb]

i took a year travelled the world, kind of screwed up things
for a while but it was worth it.

[patb]

i took a year travelled the world, kind of screwed up things
for a while but it was worth it.

[patb]

i took a year travelled the world, kind of screwed up things
for a while but it was worth it.

[patb]

i took a year travelled the world, kind of screwed up things
for a while but it was worth it.

[sdduuuude]

Shortly after my twins were born, a contract of mine was abruptly ended by an upheaval in the client company.

I didn’t look for a job for two years.

I tinkered on my house and other crazy projects – one of which you may have seen on TV. Oh – and I flipped a house. Sold it in 2005.

Most importantly, I helped my wife raise baby twins, which was a treat. I really feel like a dad. I was there, man. In the trenches. For two years. When they hit the terrible twos, I was back to work and outta there !

I would like to do this again but in economic times like these, I feel I should be making hay while I still can so I’m keeping the nose to the grindstone. Perhaps when the music ends on this contract I will do some more tinkering – maybe on a web site.

Two years was the longest. I had three or four breaks of 3-to-6 months as well in the last 12 years of independent consulting. I live for them, frankly. I call it “practicing for retirement.” I’m pretty good at it by now.

[sdduuuude]

Shortly after my twins were born, a contract of mine was abruptly ended by an upheaval in the client company.

I didn’t look for a job for two years.

I tinkered on my house and other crazy projects – one of which you may have seen on TV. Oh – and I flipped a house. Sold it in 2005.

Most importantly, I helped my wife raise baby twins, which was a treat. I really feel like a dad. I was there, man. In the trenches. For two years. When they hit the terrible twos, I was back to work and outta there !

I would like to do this again but in economic times like these, I feel I should be making hay while I still can so I’m keeping the nose to the grindstone. Perhaps when the music ends on this contract I will do some more tinkering – maybe on a web site.

Two years was the longest. I had three or four breaks of 3-to-6 months as well in the last 12 years of independent consulting. I live for them, frankly. I call it “practicing for retirement.” I’m pretty good at it by now.

[sdduuuude]

Shortly after my twins were born, a contract of mine was abruptly ended by an upheaval in the client company.

I didn’t look for a job for two years.

I tinkered on my house and other crazy projects – one of which you may have seen on TV. Oh – and I flipped a house. Sold it in 2005.

Most importantly, I helped my wife raise baby twins, which was a treat. I really feel like a dad. I was there, man. In the trenches. For two years. When they hit the terrible twos, I was back to work and outta there !

I would like to do this again but in economic times like these, I feel I should be making hay while I still can so I’m keeping the nose to the grindstone. Perhaps when the music ends on this contract I will do some more tinkering – maybe on a web site.

Two years was the longest. I had three or four breaks of 3-to-6 months as well in the last 12 years of independent consulting. I live for them, frankly. I call it “practicing for retirement.” I’m pretty good at it by now.

[sdduuuude]

Shortly after my twins were born, a contract of mine was abruptly ended by an upheaval in the client company.

I didn’t look for a job for two years.

I tinkered on my house and other crazy projects – one of which you may have seen on TV. Oh – and I flipped a house. Sold it in 2005.

Most importantly, I helped my wife raise baby twins, which was a treat. I really feel like a dad. I was there, man. In the trenches. For two years. When they hit the terrible twos, I was back to work and outta there !

I would like to do this again but in economic times like these, I feel I should be making hay while I still can so I’m keeping the nose to the grindstone. Perhaps when the music ends on this contract I will do some more tinkering – maybe on a web site.

Two years was the longest. I had three or four breaks of 3-to-6 months as well in the last 12 years of independent consulting. I live for them, frankly. I call it “practicing for retirement.” I’m pretty good at it by now.

[sdduuuude]

Shortly after my twins were born, a contract of mine was abruptly ended by an upheaval in the client company.

I didn’t look for a job for two years.

I tinkered on my house and other crazy projects – one of which you may have seen on TV. Oh – and I flipped a house. Sold it in 2005.

Most importantly, I helped my wife raise baby twins, which was a treat. I really feel like a dad. I was there, man. In the trenches. For two years. When they hit the terrible twos, I was back to work and outta there !

I would like to do this again but in economic times like these, I feel I should be making hay while I still can so I’m keeping the nose to the grindstone. Perhaps when the music ends on this contract I will do some more tinkering – maybe on a web site.

Two years was the longest. I had three or four breaks of 3-to-6 months as well in the last 12 years of independent consulting. I live for them, frankly. I call it “practicing for retirement.” I’m pretty good at it by now.

[nostradamus]

I take lots of time off and travel a lot. I have been doing this since high school (about 20 years ago). I do not regret it at all. I think the longest I took off was about 10 months. Twice. I usually take 3 to 6 months off whenever I can.

[nostradamus]

I take lots of time off and travel a lot. I have been doing this since high school (about 20 years ago). I do not regret it at all. I think the longest I took off was about 10 months. Twice. I usually take 3 to 6 months off whenever I can.

[nostradamus]

I take lots of time off and travel a lot. I have been doing this since high school (about 20 years ago). I do not regret it at all. I think the longest I took off was about 10 months. Twice. I usually take 3 to 6 months off whenever I can.

[nostradamus]

I take lots of time off and travel a lot. I have been doing this since high school (about 20 years ago). I do not regret it at all. I think the longest I took off was about 10 months. Twice. I usually take 3 to 6 months off whenever I can.

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