2022-09-12
1 小时 9 分钟I feel like it becomes even more important to figure out how to take a sabbatical as you get closer and closer to your dream job or the work of your soul or whatnot.
There are things that I want to do that don't fit into the container of regular life or regular vacation, and I will never get to do that if I don't take time for it.
And so I look forward to a world where people can say, oh, you're taking extended leave.
That's awesome.
I can't wait for my next one.
There are many things I want to do that I can't do and that if you wait for retirement, you may never get to.
Okay, so let's suspend judgment just for a moment.
What if you could take a few months, maybe even an entire year off of work to do exactly what you wanted, whether that was traveling the world, considering your next career move, writing your notes for a memoir, or just taking a moment to step back and really check in with yourself, would you go for it?
Especially after the last few years that we've had?
Well, safe bet most people would jump at that opportunity.
But then comes the reality check.
The doubt, the details.
Sure, it'd be amazing, but I could never make it happen.
But what if you could?
What if it was actually way more doable than you ever imagined?
What if there were ideas and strategies, ways to not even have to leave your job and know you had something to come back to, even if by then you realize you didn't want to anymore?
What if your personal, life changing sabbatical was not only possible, but actually really important for you to not only reclaim your sense of self and purpose and aliveness, but also create the space to see more clearly who and what matters and how you want to step into your life from that moment forward?
My guest today, DJ Dedana, has been studying these real life breaks sabbaticals in all forms, showing why they matter and revealing incredible insights into not just how to do them, especially when your work setting doesn't just organically provide for them, which most don't, but also how to make them more possible than you ever imagined.
DJ is the founder of the Sabbatical Project, a research and advocacy nonprofit that is on a mission to define, explore, and research sabbaticals and their impact, especially on non academics.
His work on sabbaticals has appeared everywhere from Time magazine to fast Company, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, courts, Fortune, so many other places.