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Participant[quote=sdrealtor]I just passed on a 2 week trip to Elba and Cinque Terra. Not that I couldnt take a career break but I cant take that long away from my children. If you can swing it, go for it![/quote]
Why not take them with you? We took the kids (then age 4 and 6) to Italy in 2007 and will be taking them again in 2011.Participant[quote=sdrealtor]I just passed on a 2 week trip to Elba and Cinque Terra. Not that I couldnt take a career break but I cant take that long away from my children. If you can swing it, go for it![/quote]
Why not take them with you? We took the kids (then age 4 and 6) to Italy in 2007 and will be taking them again in 2011.Participant[quote=kev374]My situation, no debts, mortgages, loans or any other commitments, single, no kids.
Work in IT (Sr. Java) with a decade+ of experience. Got laid off 2 wks ago in a brand new job I started, was there just for a month and the company had financial troubles from decreasing revenues..hmm.
Thinking of taking a year off, 6 months traveling middle east/africa/s.e. asia and 6 months in spanish language school as i’ve always wanted to work on my spanish to gain fluency.
Do have savings to tide me over when I get back.[/quote]
I see no downside.I have a friend who was burnt out at her job and had no mortgage, etc. She arranged to be part of the next layoff – and then spent a year travel/volunteering before picking up her new career. She started with an intensive spanish course in Madrid – then saw a bit more of Europe, then started the volunteering part of her year… South America. She arranged to volunteer for schools/food banks, etc in exchange for accomodations at host families. When she finished that portion she headed to Australia and New Zealand.
It worked for her to stretch her budget AND have more interaction with locals to do the volunteer/host family thing. Her typical volunteer commitments were pretty low hours – allowing her lots of time to explore the area in depth.
Here’s the blog from her travels…
http://staceybai.blogspot.com/Participant[quote=kev374]My situation, no debts, mortgages, loans or any other commitments, single, no kids.
Work in IT (Sr. Java) with a decade+ of experience. Got laid off 2 wks ago in a brand new job I started, was there just for a month and the company had financial troubles from decreasing revenues..hmm.
Thinking of taking a year off, 6 months traveling middle east/africa/s.e. asia and 6 months in spanish language school as i’ve always wanted to work on my spanish to gain fluency.
Do have savings to tide me over when I get back.[/quote]
I see no downside.I have a friend who was burnt out at her job and had no mortgage, etc. She arranged to be part of the next layoff – and then spent a year travel/volunteering before picking up her new career. She started with an intensive spanish course in Madrid – then saw a bit more of Europe, then started the volunteering part of her year… South America. She arranged to volunteer for schools/food banks, etc in exchange for accomodations at host families. When she finished that portion she headed to Australia and New Zealand.
It worked for her to stretch her budget AND have more interaction with locals to do the volunteer/host family thing. Her typical volunteer commitments were pretty low hours – allowing her lots of time to explore the area in depth.
Here’s the blog from her travels…
http://staceybai.blogspot.com/Participant[quote=kev374]My situation, no debts, mortgages, loans or any other commitments, single, no kids.
Work in IT (Sr. Java) with a decade+ of experience. Got laid off 2 wks ago in a brand new job I started, was there just for a month and the company had financial troubles from decreasing revenues..hmm.
Thinking of taking a year off, 6 months traveling middle east/africa/s.e. asia and 6 months in spanish language school as i’ve always wanted to work on my spanish to gain fluency.
Do have savings to tide me over when I get back.[/quote]
I see no downside.I have a friend who was burnt out at her job and had no mortgage, etc. She arranged to be part of the next layoff – and then spent a year travel/volunteering before picking up her new career. She started with an intensive spanish course in Madrid – then saw a bit more of Europe, then started the volunteering part of her year… South America. She arranged to volunteer for schools/food banks, etc in exchange for accomodations at host families. When she finished that portion she headed to Australia and New Zealand.
It worked for her to stretch her budget AND have more interaction with locals to do the volunteer/host family thing. Her typical volunteer commitments were pretty low hours – allowing her lots of time to explore the area in depth.
Here’s the blog from her travels…
http://staceybai.blogspot.com/Participant[quote=kev374]My situation, no debts, mortgages, loans or any other commitments, single, no kids.
Work in IT (Sr. Java) with a decade+ of experience. Got laid off 2 wks ago in a brand new job I started, was there just for a month and the company had financial troubles from decreasing revenues..hmm.
Thinking of taking a year off, 6 months traveling middle east/africa/s.e. asia and 6 months in spanish language school as i’ve always wanted to work on my spanish to gain fluency.
Do have savings to tide me over when I get back.[/quote]
I see no downside.I have a friend who was burnt out at her job and had no mortgage, etc. She arranged to be part of the next layoff – and then spent a year travel/volunteering before picking up her new career. She started with an intensive spanish course in Madrid – then saw a bit more of Europe, then started the volunteering part of her year… South America. She arranged to volunteer for schools/food banks, etc in exchange for accomodations at host families. When she finished that portion she headed to Australia and New Zealand.
It worked for her to stretch her budget AND have more interaction with locals to do the volunteer/host family thing. Her typical volunteer commitments were pretty low hours – allowing her lots of time to explore the area in depth.
Here’s the blog from her travels…
http://staceybai.blogspot.com/Participant[quote=kev374]My situation, no debts, mortgages, loans or any other commitments, single, no kids.
Work in IT (Sr. Java) with a decade+ of experience. Got laid off 2 wks ago in a brand new job I started, was there just for a month and the company had financial troubles from decreasing revenues..hmm.
Thinking of taking a year off, 6 months traveling middle east/africa/s.e. asia and 6 months in spanish language school as i’ve always wanted to work on my spanish to gain fluency.
Do have savings to tide me over when I get back.[/quote]
I see no downside.I have a friend who was burnt out at her job and had no mortgage, etc. She arranged to be part of the next layoff – and then spent a year travel/volunteering before picking up her new career. She started with an intensive spanish course in Madrid – then saw a bit more of Europe, then started the volunteering part of her year… South America. She arranged to volunteer for schools/food banks, etc in exchange for accomodations at host families. When she finished that portion she headed to Australia and New Zealand.
It worked for her to stretch her budget AND have more interaction with locals to do the volunteer/host family thing. Her typical volunteer commitments were pretty low hours – allowing her lots of time to explore the area in depth.
Here’s the blog from her travels…
http://staceybai.blogspot.com/Participant[quote=peterb]Anyone else notice the graph on the right hand side of this web page that shows the SD homes listed prices(Red line) verses the homes sales prices(blue line), by square feet? If this thing hasnt gone haywire, it looks like listing prices have fallen off a cliff.
Leading indicator??[/quote]Redfin glitch. They’ve been posting on all the blogs saying they’re working on it. There’s a post in the Housing Market folder. They posted on bubbleinfo.com (JtR’s blog.)
Participant[quote=peterb]Anyone else notice the graph on the right hand side of this web page that shows the SD homes listed prices(Red line) verses the homes sales prices(blue line), by square feet? If this thing hasnt gone haywire, it looks like listing prices have fallen off a cliff.
Leading indicator??[/quote]Redfin glitch. They’ve been posting on all the blogs saying they’re working on it. There’s a post in the Housing Market folder. They posted on bubbleinfo.com (JtR’s blog.)
Participant[quote=peterb]Anyone else notice the graph on the right hand side of this web page that shows the SD homes listed prices(Red line) verses the homes sales prices(blue line), by square feet? If this thing hasnt gone haywire, it looks like listing prices have fallen off a cliff.
Leading indicator??[/quote]Redfin glitch. They’ve been posting on all the blogs saying they’re working on it. There’s a post in the Housing Market folder. They posted on bubbleinfo.com (JtR’s blog.)
Participant[quote=peterb]Anyone else notice the graph on the right hand side of this web page that shows the SD homes listed prices(Red line) verses the homes sales prices(blue line), by square feet? If this thing hasnt gone haywire, it looks like listing prices have fallen off a cliff.
Leading indicator??[/quote]Redfin glitch. They’ve been posting on all the blogs saying they’re working on it. There’s a post in the Housing Market folder. They posted on bubbleinfo.com (JtR’s blog.)
Participant[quote=peterb]Anyone else notice the graph on the right hand side of this web page that shows the SD homes listed prices(Red line) verses the homes sales prices(blue line), by square feet? If this thing hasnt gone haywire, it looks like listing prices have fallen off a cliff.
Leading indicator??[/quote]Redfin glitch. They’ve been posting on all the blogs saying they’re working on it. There’s a post in the Housing Market folder. They posted on bubbleinfo.com (JtR’s blog.)
Participant[quote=grepper]
i was in a similar situation and got the axe a few weeks ago. wife keeps telling me to think of it as a vacation, and i cant. a vacation is finite and you have something to go back too. my advice to you (which is what i should have done) is to look hard (i looked, but not hard enough) for a job while you are employed. take a vacation to do it…you know get the resume cranking, cover letter going, think about interview questions, and start interviewing.that last year was the worst year of my career. and i didnt realize how toxic it was until i was gone.[/quote]
grepper – I hope you find a good job quickly.
Participant[quote=grepper]
i was in a similar situation and got the axe a few weeks ago. wife keeps telling me to think of it as a vacation, and i cant. a vacation is finite and you have something to go back too. my advice to you (which is what i should have done) is to look hard (i looked, but not hard enough) for a job while you are employed. take a vacation to do it…you know get the resume cranking, cover letter going, think about interview questions, and start interviewing.that last year was the worst year of my career. and i didnt realize how toxic it was until i was gone.[/quote]
grepper – I hope you find a good job quickly.
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