Comments on: Top 10 Reasons to Take a Career Break…and Travel

By: Michaela Potter

Michaela Potter — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:10:46 +0000

I’m partners with Sherry Ott at Briefcase to Backpack and love the enthusiasm this article has inspired. We really hope to make the idea of a career break an acceptable one in America.

Technomadia – what you are doing sounds like a great lifestyle! Will definitely follow along on your adventures.

Travel-x-4 – I love that more and more families are doing extended travel together. I used to think I would have to travel as much as possible before potentially starting a family, but hearing about families like yours has opened up my eyes to a whole new world of opportunities.

In fact, we just highlighted a family of four who just returned from 9 months of travel: http://briefcasetobackpack.com/2009/07/4suitcases-one-family-on-a-world-adventur/

And be sure to visit their site as they have highlighted several other families as well.

By: travel-x-4

travel-x-4 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:48:00 +0000

this is the exact scenario that is playing out in my life: I was laid off in February, my husband is under-employed and will be finished his existing contract in the next few weeks. both of us have been freelance workers for the past 20 years, but for the first time, there are no gigs on the horizon. our solution? take advantage of the gift of time we’ve been given and travel.

we’re renting out our house, pulling the kids (13 and 10) out of school and hitting the road for a year. we may never get an opportunity to take an extended break with our children again, so we’re going to make proverbial lemonade with the coming year.

so, Reason #11 for a career break is to re-connect with (y)our children, and to give (y)our kids the opportunity to learn and grow in a way that a year in school would never offer.

By: Technomadia

Technomadia — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:11:26 +0000

There are many great reasons and opportunities to take a gap in life and travel – or do something you want to do that’s necessarily about career. And it certainly can be life changing and rewarding.. I hope that more folks see that it is possible.

For some of us however, we’ve found ways to have it all by combining travel with our careers via location independent professions. For instance, my partner and I travel full time throughout the US (for now) in a small solar powered travel trailer that serves as both our home and office. Using wireless broadband we have some amazing office views on a regular changing basis. We do various tech consulting. And because our expenses are so much lower than they were before we were traveling full time, we actually work less (maybe 10 hrs a week?) and can concentrate on work projects that are fun.

A technomadic location independent lifestyle is just another way of incorporating career and wanderlust.. one that doesn’t require putting your career on hold or on the line.

– Cherie / http://www.technomadia.com