The single biggest question you come to terms with in your time off will be "Who am I?".
Yep. Did about 2 years of funemployment (including freelancing and an attempted startup), and one of the things that still gets me to this day is "Who am I? Why am I living? What is the purpose of this? What is the Big Plan?". Not in a depressive sense, mind you, but in a very questioning way.
Once you've been doing it for a month or two, and you see that the world continues to spin without all of that stuff you were raised as seeing as so important, you really start to question what's actually important in life.
At least for me, it changed my approach to interviews completely--the person interviewing me is just some gal or dude, and there's nothing special about them other than that they have a say in my hiring.
Yep. Did about 2 years of funemployment (including freelancing and an attempted startup), and one of the things that still gets me to this day is "Who am I? Why am I living? What is the purpose of this? What is the Big Plan?". Not in a depressive sense, mind you, but in a very questioning way.
Once you've been doing it for a month or two, and you see that the world continues to spin without all of that stuff you were raised as seeing as so important, you really start to question what's actually important in life.
At least for me, it changed my approach to interviews completely--the person interviewing me is just some gal or dude, and there's nothing special about them other than that they have a say in my hiring.