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[quote=Anonymous]My niece is just finishing her first year of grad school after taking the 2016-2017 school year off.  She had heard our family talk so much about making sure to enjoy your youth and taking advantage of time off before she gets a real job.  She decided to take the year off and she joined an Au Pair program.  She worked for 6 months in Spain for a Spanish family watching their two children and had a great time.  She had rudimentary Spanish to begin with.  She taught the kids English and the kids improved her Spanish. She had weekends off and traveled around Spain on the weekends and had a blast.  For the four months before and the four months after her tour, she took several road trips to visit friends who had started jobs and visited them in their new homes.  She took long weekend trips with some friends to visit places that she wanted to explore before settling down.  Her boyfriend had a very tight schedule and she was able to be flexible around his schedule.  In general, she took advantage of year off to do a bunch of bucket list things.  She came back last year and was really ready to buckle down and work and she's worked hard this year in grad school.  I think she already has a lot less regrets thanks to her year off than her older sister who took a great job right out of college and has been working straight for several years and is now getting burned out (she took a job in Manhattan for a major communications firm and worked her tail off for the last 3 years in a very high stress job).[/quote]

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