Hi fishes, need a career advice on taking a break for about 6 months.

I am a DE with 6 yoe working in Pune, India. I have been thinking of taking a break for a while to upskill as well as detach from my work.
The dilemma is, I am one of the top performers in the team, my manager recently offered me a dual role DE + Data Product Owner.
I am confused shall I tag along for another year or take a break right away as I have started to feel burnout.

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If you have good backup. You can take the risk for your better health and upskill. But I have seen few post where people are not finding jobs.

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I have my personal finances saved for surviving 2 years

What's your plan to come back?

My plan is to come back within 6-8 months.
And during break I can focus on health as well as stay in touch with core skills

Taking career break is completely okay but make sure you have a good backup. I took a career break to detach from work for sometime and started looking from may month but i am not getting any calls. Although i have the confidence & self-belief. I am just waiting for calls for interviews.

Any tips, Are you using any other platform other then Linkedin or Naukri or are you using network?

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