Planning for "DIY" work sabbaticals (and convincing yourself to take one)
Anyone here remember the halcyon days of tech, when AMD offered an 8-week sabbatical after seven years of service? I do! This was back when I was an engineer, and I remember dreaming about how awesome that would be...until I realized that it wasn't outside the realm of possibility to just figure out how to do one myself. Mine was a mini-sabbatical that "just" involved burning 4 weeks of leave all at one go...but that, as crazy as it felt to me at the time, was scratching the