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Week 36: Why sabbaticals make sense if you love your career
Sept. 4, 2020

Week 36: Why sabbaticals make sense if you love your career

This week we talk with Ben Reeve, successful retailer who loves his career, but also loves to travel, and created The Sabbatical Guide website to help out others who share this passion. Ben's website: The Sabbatical Guide Fo…
Week 32: Point of Departure
Aug. 8, 2020

Week 32: Point of Departure

This week you decide what will be your last day at work before your career break begins and what projects you'll aim to finish up before you bid your colleagues adieu.
Week 15: How to plan for a career break when so much of life is up in the air
April 10, 2020

Week 15: How to plan for a career break when so much of life is up in the air

Leaning on the wisdom gleaned from our last three guests, we review the landmarks to follow to help get to World of Away And here is an interesting TED Talk by Stefan Sagmeister, graphic designer and founder of Sagmeister In…
Week 13: What is an academic sabbatical and how do you fit it into your career?
March 27, 2020

Week 13: What is an academic sabbatical and how do you fit it into your career?

This week we talk with an Academy insider, a tenured professor who serves on a University sabbatical review committee and has taken several career breaks of his own.
Week 12: Where there's a will, there's a way - Career breaks early in your career
March 20, 2020

Week 12: Where there's a will, there's a way - Career breaks early in your career

Today we talk with Jake Crome, a chemical engineer who took a six-month career break from his first full-time job out of college to hike the Appalachian Trail. Jake was the first person at his company branch to take a career…