This is fascinating, I’ve not heard of a single SWE who takes many multi-month breaks. If you don’t mind sharing, I’d love to hear more details on how you manage this. How are you able to negotiate longer breaks with your employer(s), or do you have to keep jumping ship? I would think that it’s extremely expensive (especially with how equity vests), exhausting, and inefficient to be quitting jobs and starting new ones in order to take breaks shorter than say a year.
The labor market is extremely inefficient and it can often be exploited heavily to gain personal freedom and success simultaneously.
This is fascinating, I’ve not heard of a single SWE who takes many multi-month breaks. If you don’t mind sharing, I’d love to hear more details on how you manage this. How are you able to negotiate longer breaks with your employer(s), or do you have to keep jumping ship? I would think that it’s extremely expensive (especially with how equity vests), exhausting, and inefficient to be quitting jobs and starting new ones in order to take breaks shorter than say a year.
Can you say more about this?