From: The Wall Street Journal
Take a Career Break, but Stay In the Game
You got burned out. Your kids needed you. You became a crypto millionaire overnight.
Whatever the reason—congrats. Welcome to your career break, length TBD.
Time off by choice can be wonderful if you can swing it, a chance to recalibrate your priorities and detox from the stress of the working world. It can also be a kind of limbo. How to keep your edge without getting sucked back into corporate overwhelm? How do you know when it’s the right moment to job hunt again? And what comes next, anyway?
“It’s the ‘I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up’ kind of feeling,” says Tami Forman, the executive director of Path Forward, a nonprofit dedicated to helping people re-enter the workforce.
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