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Here is your opportunity to share your experiences with us! Below are some questions to help in telling us your story, but feel free to share anything you feel will help to inspire others.

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Share: Your Career Break

Have you taken a career break? Let us know about it so we can share it with others! And be sure to include photos.

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1. What made you decide to take a career break?
2. What was your travel experience like prior to your break?
3. What were some of the ways you prepared for this new experience? Were there any experiences from your corporate life that helped you in the preparation process?
4. Did you face any anxieties while preparing? If so, how did you deal with them?
5. How did you decide on what to do and where to go?
6. What surprised you the most about the destinations you went to? What surprised you the most about yourself?
7. While on the road, what helped you through any doubts or struggles you encountered?
8. Did you feel you could have been better prepared in any way? If so, how?
9. How was your experience returning home? Did you struggle with reverse culture shock?
10. Reflecting on your career break, what insight have you gained?
11. How are you going to apply lessons learned from your experience to your life and work now?
12. What advice would you give to someone thinking of doing this?
13. What next?
14. Where next?

Share: Your Sabbatical

Have you taken a sabbatical? Let us know about it so we can share it with others! And be sure to include photos.

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1. What inspired you to take your sabbatical?
2. Would you have taken a sabbatical if your company didn’t offer one?
3. If your company didn’t offer a sabbatical program, how did you negotiate one with them?
4. How did you go about planning your sabbatical? Did you have any assistance?
5. Where did you go and what did you do on your sabbatical?
6. What did you find the most challenging about the experience? The most rewarding?
7. What was the transition like returning to the workforce? Any challenges?
8. Did you find that your sabbatical helped to rejuvenate your career?
9. What experiences from your sabbatical could you bring back to the workforce? Any lessons learned?
10. What advice would you give to someone thinking about taking a sabbatical? What about to someone who hadn’t thought about it before?

Share: Your Tips

We know all about learning from experience, so share with us what you learned from life on the road!