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submitted 12 hours ago by Cashmere@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Please be a little specific in your plan, not just "travel". Where do you want to travel ?

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[-] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 2 points 1 hour ago

I would spend my year trying to turn my side business into my actual business then I couldn't quite my job and work for myself doing what I do now but for more money

[-] m0darn@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 hours ago

I'd probably start designing and building a rolling ball clock/ sculpture, then hit some sort of obstacle and switch to making a self recirculating eddy current tube, get frustrated and try to design and build an electronically commutated counter rotating propeller driver, get frustrated and try to build a garage sized 3d printer, get frustrated and try to build a delayed action door closer get frustrated and try to build a co-planar compound cycloidal reducer, get frustrated and then forget my wife's anniversary until 4pm the day before.

[-] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago

I'll go nuts and get myself hospitalized in a psych ward

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago

I can recommend a big stupid project where it's not a big deal if you fail.

Until recently, for me that would've meant "run Windows programs on Android," mashing together Wine and e.g. Unicorn Engine... but now there's like six different "userland emulators" vying for preference. FEX-emu, Box86, others with even sillier names.

I did manage a bespoke 8-bit FPS. That only took about two months. And then I've been idly tweaking it over the last two years. Splitscreen multiplayer, as a joke, was maybe not the best idea.

What'd take both time and space is some extremely low-end VR. I am convinced that Quest-ish headsets could cost, like, fifty bucks. The big players keep iterating clever hacks from a decade ago. Solving those problem, instead of avoiding those problems. Light should be collimated by default, which means a point source, which is any single LED. Rendering has to be detached from software performance, which means projecting the nearby world to e.g. floating dots instead of directly making a flat image. Inside-out tracking is at least the right idea, but it doesn't have to be especially good in order to ground an inertial estimate.

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 18 points 9 hours ago

Hey, I actually did this! It was the best time of my life.

My aim was to migrate to south america, specialize in my career and get in/stay in shape.

I spent my days going to the gym, learning spanish, doing impromptu streams on twitch (I found a little community in my preperations to quit my job) , and I did travel to the country I wanted to migrate to and to NY to see a band that rarely plays live, visit my family in a different country and to visit my bud that lived in scandinavia.

I spent a month with my family preparing a portfolio.

I saved money during my career, about $16k over several years,and figured, if time is money, money is time.

I'm happy to answer any questions.

[-] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

What country was it? Are you still there?

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago

Uruguay, still there.

[-] Cashmere@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Did you have a job there or a clue ? Or you went to search for it ?

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

No job, no clue. At the start the perspective of some others and me were that it felt like I just fell out of the sky and tried to integrate into society.

I figured I'd either do immersion learning for spanish, or succeed and set up my life here.

The job came fairly easily, one of the companies from my first wave of applications accepted me.

[-] Ptsf@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

A full year of multi month hikes across the world. I want to see it all and meet new people.

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 points 4 hours ago

Prioritize exercise. Try to gear towards being able to run a marathon and doing some strength training and yoga.

Cook more for myself. I don't think I'd go full vegetarian, but I'd probably have less meat dishes overall.

Try to learn Spanish or Portuguese using one of those quick learning methods.

Take at least two cross continent trips. One would be between the two inhabited North American coasts. The second would either be Europe from Portugal to Finland, Australia, or the Americas from North to South.

Maybe live in a low cost Spanish or Portuguese speaking city for a month.

[-] Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io 3 points 6 hours ago

Technically not a sabbatical, but I saved up a bunch of money, quit my job, and have been studying abroad in Japan.

[-] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 57 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Nothing! I'm super-serious, and I plan on doing exactly that for the following 6 months (quit my job, taking a break to address burnout and reorient): nothing.

By that, I mean I'll allow myself to get as much sleep as I humanly can, try to feed myself healthier food (and more regularly), develop my hobbies (mini painting, playing the bass, sketching, writing), re-establish a semblance of a social life by exploring the city and its options, spending more time with friends... Pretty much just living life. No goals, no quotas, no deadlines, no performance metrics, no side-hustle, no Work™.

[-] beercupcake@sopuli.xyz 4 points 7 hours ago

I did that when i got laid off in January. Can recommend. Mental reset helps. Having no job helps with refocusing on whats really important, like own mental wellbeing, family and friends. Good times, tho i got pretty stressed out because searching for new job took a while, despite everyone else in IT got one in 15mins it seemed at the moment

[-] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago

...get as much sleep as I humanly can, try to feed myself healthier food (and more regularly), develop my hobbies (mini painting, playing the bass, sketching, writing), re-establish a semblance of a social life by exploring the city and its options, spending more time with friends... Pretty much just living life.

That's not nothing!

[-] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

Thoroughly agreed, that's what I call everything not viewed as immediately societally productive. More of a sarcastic reversal of the main complaint I've received throughout my life while just living it.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 hours ago

thats not nothing

[-] Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works 12 points 11 hours ago

I plan on doing exactly that for the following 6 months (quit my job, taking a break to address burnout and reorient): nothing.

I wouldn't call adressing a burnout a Sabbatical but a sick leave, a Sabbatical is choosing to take time off work for a project, not needing to take time off work for your mental health

Sorry that you're there (And use the health issue as an explanation for the hole in your CV if they ask)

[-] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Agreed, expressed it incorrectly, the burnout is nowhere near the main reason for my taking time off. I needed to take a break from Adult Stuff. I mean, last time I did anything even remotely resembling a vacation/holiday was in 2014, now I'm taking my time.

Also, thank you so much for your kind words! Honestly, burnouts are just part of the routine at this point, I'll be back on my feet in two-three months tops!

[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 11 hours ago

I did the same, except 'nothing' was 'play with my kid' and several years later it still registers as a very happy time, even though I should have been worrying about work, or lack thereof.

(I was going to the trampoline park 2-3 times a week with a toddler, great times.)

[-] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

This is what life should be like in a sane world. Work should never take up as much of our cognitive bandwidth as it does now.

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

This is essentially what I did when I was laid off August last year. And it did take about that long to really be free of all the stress I'd racked up over the years in retail and other public customer-facing roles.

[-] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago

It really does take a while... Had a 9-month breakdown during the Pandemic, that one was exclusively for mental health care. I literally locked myself in my apartment and did nothing but eat, sleep, play vidya, get high, and have weekly therapy sessions for the entire duration.

It took 8 months to stop being anxious about not being stressed out. Used to wake up every morning with that sharp fear that I'd missed my daily meetings, then it would slowly turn into an "oh, shit, I'm not being Productive" jumble of self-loathing and panic.

[-] minibyte@sh.itjust.works 4 points 12 hours ago

That sounds beautiful.

[-] knocks@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Probably a bikini inspector at my favourite beach... Seriously though the Bibbulmun Track.

[-] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 9 points 9 hours ago

Sleep, play with my cats, hang out with my wife, organize all my shit, prune my emails and pictures, finish my homelab and the other tech projects I have going on, go to Disney a bunch.

[-] BruceLee@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 hours ago

That but instead of Disney, I would take time to learn a new skill and horn the one I have learned before.

[-] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 13 points 10 hours ago

My question to anyone able to answer this: how can you afford to take a sabbatical period??? I can’t even afford to take a weeks vacation. It would wreck me financially not receiving pay for a whole week. Let alone a year??? What’s going on in this thread?

[-] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Read mrmoneymustache.com.

[-] SuperFola@programming.dev 6 points 7 hours ago

I’ve been saving 30-40% of my salary each month for years, it helps not going outside because you don’t like people and watching movies and playing video games. And eating ramen

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago

step 1 : have a career

step 2 : don't spend that much money, building up savings

step 3 : time is money, therefore, money is time.

step 4 : be very, very frugal during your time with no work. I ate a lot of protein powder, eggs and pasta

[-] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 1 points 33 minutes ago

What is a career in your definition?

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 21 minutes ago

In this context, it's an employment specialization that allows you to earn a greater than average income. I was amazed that as a software tester I used to get paid more than a nurse, an arguably more stressful and more important employment path.

I'm on the left. It's a hard thing that happens in life that I am pointing out, not agreeing with.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 hours ago

There are some platforms like World Packers where you receive free food and a bed for helping out in places. But I guess that still doesn't cover travel, insurance, debt, and any other long term payments you might have to make

[-] POTOOOOOOOO@reddthat.com 9 points 11 hours ago

I'd hike the Appalachian Trail.

[-] thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 7 hours ago
[-] Cashmere@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Wow that must be so cool to do ! Both projects are really nice !

[-] 1stQ@feddit.org 6 points 10 hours ago

Our dream (my SO and me) is to ride our motorcycles to Japan (from Central Europe). At this time the northern route is politically difficult. The southern route has always been difficult but would be the better option at this time, I think. We even discussed ideas of plans. She could take a half year off, for me it would be more difficult. But the funds would be the biggest issue. So plan B is to rent motorcycles for a week or two, next time we're in Japan.

[-] Cashmere@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

I hope you'll be able to do it someday. It's a really nice project

[-] Corno@lemm.ee 2 points 8 hours ago

Book a private jet to go to California with my family. I've always really liked the idea of California and I also have a really good friend that lives there! 😃

[-] Cashmere@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Quality time with family then

[-] scytale@lemm.ee 5 points 12 hours ago

Visit Japan, South Korea, and certain EU countries I’ve never been to yet. Also probably spend 2 weeks back in my home country to visit immediate family and some friends.

[-] Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 hours ago

Bike trip on the Panericana from Punta Arenas to whatever is the northern most city in Alaska. Or if I have less time but cash to burn, do it in an ultra-light (A bit like Blyth Cape-town Cape North expedition in the 90's http://www.trike-expeditions.com/CapeToCape/capetocape.html )

[-] Cashmere@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

21,000 km, that's a trip ! Very cool ! I didn't know this trail ! Thanks

[-] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 5 points 12 hours ago
[-] Cashmere@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Do you have any ideas where ?

this post was submitted on 31 Oct 2024
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