I started my career in high tech in Israel, where there is a strong tradition of sabbaticals that stems from the Jewish religion. A common perk of white collar jobs is an education fund that one can tap after 7 years, or 3 or 4 years if being used for official education expenses. I did not live in Israel long enough to take advantage of this fund, but I think there is something there I should learn from.
I am taking a sabbatical with the intention of improving my technical skills, doing some career networking, and establishing an exercise routine.
During my sabbatical I hope to:
- set up my Macbook as a development environment
- learn Selenium's new WebDriver interface
- contribute to an open source project
- learn python
- learn ruby
I am not sure how long my sabbatical will run, but I hope that by the time I decide it's time to go back to work, I will have at least one new accomplishment to add to my
resume.
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