Career break: avoid the excuses and just do it!

[demonboy]

Aside from "what do you do all day" the two most common phrases we hear are "you're so lucky" and "I wish I could do what you're doing". With this in mind Wanderlust magazine commissioned Liz (lyralicious) to write a piece on taking a career break. She lists the excuses people use and how to get round the barriers.

For anyone using this forum who is not yet a live-aboard, I hope you find this piece insightful: http://www.wanderlust.co.uk/planatr...areer-breaks-excuses-not-to-debunked?page=all

 

[jonic]

hear hear..............................and don't ever come home!

(its January and I'm fed up and wishing I was in Antigua)

 

[Ariadne]

Your life can be as good and exciting as you want it to be, there's no dress rehearsal and no 2nd chances; so get out there and do it!

It took two years of planning and selling our house but, we're a few months short on 7 years aboard now. Still homeschooling our two teenagers, no problems.

 

[Gwylan]

Get on with it

Aside from "what do you do all day" the two most common phrases we hear are "you're so lucky" and "I wish I could do what you're doing". With this in mind Wanderlust magazine commissioned Liz (lyralicious) to write a piece on taking a career break. She lists the excuses people use and how to get round the barriers.

For anyone using this forum who is not yet a live-aboard, I hope you find this piece insightful: http://www.wanderlust.co.uk/planatr...areer-breaks-excuses-not-to-debunked?page=all

In 1997 someone took the decision to give me a cheque and the chance to 'spend more time with my family'. Never really looked back, not always a bundle of laughs and things could have been different, but I'd probably be dead by now.

Don't wait there is never a better time than now.

 

[jonic]

Don't wait there is never a better time than now.

Too right. And here's some instructions.

 

[Uricanejack]

In some ways I admire those of you who do.
But its not for me.

 

[Terra-Loon]

I hate the term 'rat race'. Honest people working for a living do not deserve to be described as rats,

 

[BrianH]

I hate the term 'rat race'. Honest people working for a living do not deserve to be described as rats,

But no one did use the term "rat race" - not in this thread, anyway.

However, I know what you mean because one hears it often enough from those who have opted out of the standard pattern of life. There was another, recent thread titled "Choosing sailing over joining the rat-race", in which I protested that:

"The whole point is though, it never was "the rat-race" for me, so not much of a contest."​

Now that I am retired I can spend half of each year sailing around and if I had the chance again I still would have chosen an interesting career with sailing as a hobby. It worked for me so it's good that we are all different.

 

[Poignard]

If your career is so bad that you feel the need to escape it maybe the answer is to change it.

 

[Cardo]

T-minus less than 2 months! My career break now shows up on our work calendar, which is awesome. From the 1st April 2013 every day shows up as "work free".