Unfortunately, our society (and our parents/relatives!) expects us to follow an upward trajectory: college, first job, better job, marriage, house, kids, better job with better title, annual vacation, more work, vacation house, put kids through college, more work, retire at 65...and yet it really doesn't make much sense does it? It's far better to alternate five years of work with say a year's sabbatical in a foreign country, and repeat as needed. And we could all do this (take regular sabbaticals) if we wanted to, if we practiced a more minimalist lifestyle and eschewed expensive toys. Thank you for this post @antifragile
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Respectfully, the meaning of sabbatical is the seventh year. Just as the Sabbath is the seventh day. Taking a sabbatical has been a common practice among university professors for refreshing and renewing their field of study.
Yes, that's a good point. My cousin is a professor and takes sabbaticals every 4 or 5 years but funny enough she works harder during her sabbaticals as she spends them undertaking research in foreign universities and preparing articles for publication in prestigious journals.