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Do it! I took 5 years off and back better than ever lol
Yes I had a kid and a couple of small businesses!
I’m putting in my notice next week without a job lined up. I’ve come to realize there are other priorities/interests in life that I should go after. Fortunately I have the financial means to take this break
I’ve done this twice and came out good. Just make sure you have money saved. Life is a different path for all of us isn’t that the beauty!
Ask for an extended leave. You can take time off without pay and come back to EY. Not sure how the process goes.
That sounds awesome honestly
Happens all the time. I also left without anything lined up. If I decide to go back, I can always say that I took a gap to take care of personal matters that required my full attention.
You’ll be fine. I took a year off to travel and in the short term yes I was behind my peers by one year for promotion. But in the long run it’s one year and made no real difference.
I have no regrets. The older I get, the happier I am about taking that year off. It was worth the cost (both cost of the travel and opportunity cost), time, seeing my friends get promoted a year earlier, and my parents’ disappointment.
It won’t have any negative long term impact. And life is about much work than just work.
DO IT! I did that and had no issues getting interviews/job on the same level as before I left. It is easy to explain on your resume, most employers, especially in industry, see this as you being an interesting person who will be a good culture fit to their organization. What’s 1 year in a 30-40 year career?
More so, it will help unearth more passions in your life, answer more personal questions and you will have a blast!
One suggestion, don’t focus too much on having something “productive” you are doing in that time. Opportunities will naturally come up to learn and grow (professionally/personally) - take them, but don’t come up w something arbitrary because it will be “career building.” This is a rare opportunity in your young adult life to fully embrace personal curiosity and your wonderfully small significance in our big world. Wake up every morning amd reflect on “what the fuck do I want to do today?” And then just go do it without restraint/responsibility!
Tl/dr: no one cares professionally. What’s a year in our modern lifespan? This can only help you be a better version of yourself. Good luck!!!
thank you for this!
You realized all that after just 3 years?! Damn I need to reflect more.
I took 9 months off right after I made senior. I learned a ton, explored several places, and ended up funding a lot of my lifestyle with credit cards. It was a ton of fun, and I have many memorable experiences from it, but if I could go back and undo it, I would.
Forget the obvious stuff of being behind a year, your also behind more than that because you’ll have to re-learn the practice.
I also ended up declining more in that 9 months off, than ever before. Something about having no responsibilities, made me spend most of my free time focused on fun, and I lost a lot of motivation to be productive. I fell into a depression, and only came out of it a few months after being back at work and contributing value to society again.
So if you go for it, don’t make the same mistakes I did.
In the long run, a year isn't a long time when it comes to your career but it is a long time when it comes to focusing on yourself and personal growth.
While you take a gap year, others will take this year to work hard and learn valuable skills. It’s hard to put a finger on exactly to what extent you’ll fall behind, but others will take the opportunity to grow and learn while you don’t. I think it’s important that you learn other skills during this time.
I don't agree with this statement. I've been doing this for 10 years and I'm two to three years away from partner and I've known a couple people who have taken off a year and as far as I can tell no one's career has been hurt by it. I worked in a different industry for a few years before going to law school and then going into public accounting so you could say that I started out four to five years behind everyone else but I'm looking at making partner around the same time. In a 30 plus year career I think it's short-sighted to be too worried about taking off a year. If it's something you want to do then by all means go for it.
If you plan on rejoining EY and you have good relationships with superiors, it shouldn’t be an issue at all. If you are going elsewhere it’s not a huge deal either but will take a bit more explaining and won’t be for all employers. Overall I highly recommend the decision.
That said, is this year the best year to make that decision? Given the pandemic you won’t be able to travel freely given the pandemic.
It’s definitely not happening this year, it’ll be after the pandemic is over.
I am in the same place as you buddy. I am just waiting for COVID to get better (to be able to travel more freely, things not to be as limited) and I will take a GAP year. That way I can reflect on who I am, what makes me happy and what I want. Might try to get an unpaid leave so I have something to come back to.
All these people taking time off without pay and still complaining they are underpaid.
Being underpaid doesn’t mean not having money on hand. It’s about how you value your worth does not equal how your firm does.
I think that’s wonderful. I like to think I would’ve done the Peace Corps after grad school had I not met my wife.
Mind if I ask - how do you do a gap year with COVID? Nationally, it’s here for a while. Globally it’s going to be a few years.
Not going to do it during COVID, definitely going to wait until it’s cleared out in most places.