Has anyone tried taking extended breaks in-between jobs? Like 6 months to a year gaps?

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I try to live paycheck to paycheck to keep myself humble and hungry but EY makes it tough with the market leading comp and benefits package they throw at me

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What do the market leading comp and benefits package look like?

I did kinda 3 months but looks like one month on resume.
Left firm first week of June and started new firm last day of August.

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I took eight months. Slow-traveled through 14 countries, did some language study and volunteer work. Best decision of my life. Any company I would ever want to work for wouldn’t look at that time as a liability, but rather would see it as a plus!

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Here were few highlights - Albania, Montenegro, Eswatini, Mozambique, Argentina, Vietnam, New Zealand…

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I took one year. Loved the first days. Hated the following 3-5 weeks, and then started to get the hang of it. At the end I was aching to join the workforce.

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I started to get the hang of relaxing and not having deadlines to meet.

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