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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DS graduated from college one semester early in December '23 with a degree in CS from University of Florida and received several offers.  He turned down all of them and decided to use the money he saved from three previous internships, 50K, to travel the world and work on his physical appearance (i.e. working with a physical fitness instructor) and pick up his guitar hobby again.  He doesn't plan to get a job until December '24.  His exact words to me were "I want to be the best version of myself physically and emotionally in the next twelve months".  Is it normal for young people these days to take a break for a year before entering the workforce or grad school?[/quote]

I'm curious to learn more about what he did that led up to college? Was he working summer jobs? College jobs? Internships? Did he work hard in high school? Take a lot of advance classes? Have interests outside of school? I ask because it sounds like he has burned out and wants to take time off before he has to get back into the intensity of a job. [/quote]

He was an athlete in HS, recruited to play in D1, but a serious injury sidelined him for good.  He was a good, not great student in HS, but he did take about 5 AP classes.  CS just seems easy for him.  He had three internships in his freshman, sophomore, and junior years.  After college graduation, he just decided he needed to take a long break to travel the world with the money that he saved from those internships.

Updated:  DS and his buddies arrived in Vietnam last week, and they have a budget of $200/day for lodging, meal, travel, $50 per person.  They are living a good life in Vietnam.  They had just celebrated the Lunar New Year and had a great time there.[/quote]

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