If you’re a professor already, you’re in a bit more of a pickle, because there’s no guarantee of a place to come back to if you leave. Still, it might be worth the risk.
It is customary for professors to take a year of sabbatical every several years. So it would still probably be possible to take off a year with a guaranteed job at the end.
(that said, at least in the fields I’m familiar with, the sabbatical is supposed to be a working holiday and a chance to start a new project in your own field, instead of try something fairly different)
It is customary for professors to take a year of sabbatical every several years. So it would still probably be possible to take off a year with a guaranteed job at the end.
(that said, at least in the fields I’m familiar with, the sabbatical is supposed to be a working holiday and a chance to start a new project in your own field, instead of try something fairly different)