Do You Take Time Between Jobs

[Anonymous]

As a biglaw attorney, the gap between jobs is something I am really looking forward to should I decide to lateral (undecided for now).

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Anonymous wrote:It goes against every Protestant-work-ethic bone in my body to take off time between jobs. Wasted time? Wasted money?

Cheapskate

Not the PP. But, thanks for the complement.
My wife says I need a bumper sticker: "Don't tailgate, I stop to pick up pennies"

I‘m the OP here, and I’m not cheap. But I do love Benjamin Franklin thriftiness and Rockefeller work values. Maybe I’m the dying breed, but I find value in hard work for its own sake, and I cannot imagine taking a week off between jobs to do nothing.

You never took time off to raise kids?

? The OP was about taking a week of between two jobs. Not quitting to do something non-vocational.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It goes against every Protestant-work-ethic bone in my body to take off time between jobs. Wasted time? Wasted money?

Cheapskate

Not the PP. But, thanks for the complement.
My wife says I need a bumper sticker: "Don't tailgate, I stop to pick up pennies"

I‘m the OP here, and I’m not cheap. But I do love Benjamin Franklin thriftiness and Rockefeller work values. Maybe I’m the dying breed, but I find value in hard work for its own sake, and I cannot imagine taking a week off between jobs to do nothing.

You never took time off to raise kids?

PP but not the OP. I a guy and took a couple of weeks off for each of my kids (more than a decade ago). It was all saved vacation so I didn't miss any pay. Have to say that being home with a newborn is the anti-definition of "time off." The OP says he/she is thrifty and Rockefeller and all that. I'm the cheapskate. You'd all hate me.

[Anonymous]

If you can afford it, taking a month off between jobs is a great way to reset and recharge. Good time of year to do it is either change jobs and take August off, or else leave at Thanksgiving and start new job on January 1. Have done it both ways and never regretted it.

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Anonymous wrote:I am pondering this right now. I am expecting an offer this week. The new job doesn’t need me until may. But the current job is insanely busy and I don’t know that I can get someone trained in the next 2 weeks. I may actually stick with current until the new job starts. But damn would I love a couple weeks to myself!

Training your replacement is not your responsibility. They will cope!

I took a week -- and my advice (that my mentor passed along to me) is to start a new job on a Wednesday. That gives you a short week and you get the weekend to decompress.

I am pretty sure I know who is going to take on my job role and I don’t want to leave him hanging. I’m just a nice person like that. I COULD take some time, I guess (I have several weeks of leave they have to pay out to me anyway). As I said, I may take my children to the family beach condo if our schedules can align and “work” from there a few long weekends or something. And my new boss is my best friend and they are all virtual still, so I have some flexibility.