Attention conservation notice: Not answering your question, instead making a different suggestion.
If you’re willing to commit to meditating 12-18 hours/day (so 2×-3× your current goal), you could also go on a long-term meditation retreat. Panditarama Lumbini in Nepal offers long-term retreats for whatever one can afford.
(I haven’t gone there, and they have a very harsh schedule with some sleep deprivation.)
I’ve had coffee chats with three people who like that retreat center. I like retreats, and I did a 8h/day home retreat last summer. Have seriously considered Panditarama but it is a big time investment and career break especially early career. And also I worry it would be hard on my body sitting so long and hard, and that Mahasi practice risks being destabilizing. May still do one though. Probably not while getting a business off the ground, but maybe when there is in between time or room for a small sabbatical.
Do you have any thoughts on career circumstances where I could make income for the 9 months I wouldn’t be on retreat?
Unfortunately not :-/ SWE jobmarket seems tough right now, maybe less so in old programming languages like COBOL? But that’s banks so they may require a full-time position.
Attention conservation notice: Not answering your question, instead making a different suggestion.
If you’re willing to commit to meditating 12-18 hours/day (so 2×-3× your current goal), you could also go on a long-term meditation retreat. Panditarama Lumbini in Nepal offers long-term retreats for whatever one can afford.
(I haven’t gone there, and they have a very harsh schedule with some sleep deprivation.)
Appreciate the suggestion!
I’ve had coffee chats with three people who like that retreat center. I like retreats, and I did a 8h/day home retreat last summer. Have seriously considered Panditarama but it is a big time investment and career break especially early career. And also I worry it would be hard on my body sitting so long and hard, and that Mahasi practice risks being destabilizing. May still do one though. Probably not while getting a business off the ground, but maybe when there is in between time or room for a small sabbatical.
Do you have any thoughts on career circumstances where I could make income for the 9 months I wouldn’t be on retreat?
Unfortunately not :-/ SWE jobmarket seems tough right now, maybe less so in old programming languages like COBOL? But that’s banks so they may require a full-time position.