Please be a little specific in your plan, not just “travel”. Where do you want to travel ?
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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’m assuming money is not an option?
Learn shit. Painting class, cooking class, poetry, random community college shit. Hire a language tutor if I could. And I’d hire a personal trainer and chef, since I’d have time to try and work on myself. Maybe a coding boot camp if I can keep up, so I can come back with a whole new career. I think I’d make that my goal. Dabble in as many things as I can to see what I like. And I also just like learning random shit.
When I have three months left, I’ll take a trip to visit all the places I’ve been interested in moving to. I’d hope to come back healthier and smarter, in some way.
I would also leave myself two weeks to just be before I had to go back to real life.
I kind of did this once! Essentially I got laid of from a job but happened to have a good money buffer and life was quite inexpensive at the time, so I just thought “fuck it” and went as long as I could without working, I made it about a year.
It was awesome! My mental health has never been better, I wrote most of a book, got pretty decent at Blender, started working on learning to make games… and then I had to go back to work and it all went to shit lol, that was several years ago and I haven’t touched any of it since.
Spend time with my kids and play video games while they’re at school
Technically not a sabbatical, but I saved up a bunch of money, quit my job, and have been studying abroad in Japan.
I’ll go nuts and get myself hospitalized in a psych ward
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?
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
Our dream (my SO and me) is to ride our motorcycles to Japan (from Central Europe). At this time the northern route is politically difficult. The southern route has always been difficult but would be the better option at this time, I think. We even discussed ideas of plans. She could take a half year off, for me it would be more difficult. But the funds would be the biggest issue. So plan B is to rent motorcycles for a week or two, next time we’re in Japan.
I hope you’ll be able to do it someday. It’s a really nice project
Two chicks at the same time, man…
My question to anyone able to answer this: how can you afford to take a sabbatical period??? I can’t even afford to take a weeks vacation. It would wreck me financially not receiving pay for a whole week. Let alone a year??? What’s going on in this thread?
There are some platforms like World Packers where you receive free food and a bed for helping out in places. But I guess that still doesn’t cover travel, insurance, debt, and any other long term payments you might have to make
I’ve been saving 30-40% of my salary each month for years, it helps not going outside because you don’t like people and watching movies and playing video games. And eating ramen
step 1 : have a career
step 2 : don’t spend that much money, building up savings
step 3 : time is money, therefore, money is time.
step 4 : be very, very frugal during your time with no work. I ate a lot of protein powder, eggs and pasta
What is a career in your definition?
In this context, it’s an employment specialization that allows you to earn a greater than average income. I was amazed that as a software tester I used to get paid more than a nurse, an arguably more stressful and more important employment path.
I’m on the left. It’s a hard thing that happens in life that I am pointing out, not agreeing with.
That’s wild. I’m assuming you’re in the states. I’m a UX designer and on paper I make just shy of $50k CAD.
Read mrmoneymustache.com.
I’d hike the Appalachian Trail.
I’d do the Sentiero Italia (Grand Italian Trail)
Wow that must be so cool to do ! Both projects are really nice !
- 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
Procrastinate for eleven months, panic at the last minute, ask for a do over, fail, then try to learn Rust in 3 days and program a roguelike.
are you me from other timeline?
I did have a one year sabbatical. I hiked and volunteered on farms mostly. I worked at a animal refuge farm in India and a goat farm in Montana. I hiked in the Himalayas, Andes, Rockies, and Tetons. I hiked in Canyon, Texas and at Glacier too. I headed south for winter and explored the civic side of the civil war and the civil rights movement, hoping to learn something that would help me understand what was happening in our country. I toured Little Rock High, Fort Sumter, White Haven and Jackson’s Barracks. I read Lincoln’s speeches. I learned to cross country ski and visited my mom a lot. I went to Virginia with my family and took a detour to DC with my sister while we were there.
I’m back to working now. I moved to live near the mountains so I can hike and I volunteer on an animal refuge farm every week. My mom passed not too long after. I am forever grateful for that experience.
