My Exploration

It’s the new year already – and I’m finally back at work – its a little bit weird to be back but good as well. Having a month off work to chill out and start to remember all the good things about life is great. I fully recommend taking 4 weeks leave in one go at least every two years so that you can reset your creativity and relearn all the good things about life – family, friends and fun.

It’s one of those things that while at school and possibly uni that you can take for granted – long holidays where you have time to go to the beach everyday, meet up with friends and chill out – and generally have fun to that degree – and when you start full-time work your 2-3 months worth of holidays each year is reduced to a measly 1 month! Which I find it’s really easy to use in little dribs and drabs in order to make the most of  long weekends and short – 1 week – trips away here and there.  But do you ever truly relax like you used to in those early years? I think not – I recommend the disconnect (electronic & work-wise) for a full month to really reconnect with you family and friends – and perhaps one of the most useful reasons – to reconsider why you are where you are. So many people get sucked into the vortex called work that they forget how to put work into a life perspective. Taking a full month (fully disconnected) from work means that you get pulled away from the vortex, and can re-evaluate your life, and your goals.

For me the last month on leave has been a fantastic time – I spent 10 days with family over Christmas, just chilling out and enjoying sharing time and company – reconnecting a lives for those 10 days at least – and it has made me reconsider why I moved away and whether I still want to be away. I haven’t come to a decision but I certainly didn’t feel or think this way before I took the break. In addition, as my last post states, I hadn’t considered fully going back to university, sort of but not really. I feel more certain now about going back to university in 2011. I had considered doing a Masters this year but the Masters I was looking at was not as in depth or detailed as I wanted to go, so I have considered and 99% decided that I will go back next year to do another Bachelor degree (God willing). This was definitely not something I was considering in any detail 4 weeks ago, but here I am, one step closer to changing careers.