many colleges do for profs, periodic sabbaticals in fact.
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I've taken 3 work sabbaticals in between jobs. This was all pre-kid so my calculus has likely changed but with some savings and cost efficient living, I was able to plan for them. I suppose I'd have more in my retirement fund if I hadn't done them but I do my best to make my finances adjust to my life, not the other way around.
I think I'm already there. For instance, the coffee I drink tomorrow will have been roasted today. We don't roast at home, but the business we get it from roasts the morning after my order and ships that day by 2-day post. Or for us, leaves it on our front porch.
Lol, I haven't had a cup of coffee in 20 years. I did have a coworker for quite a while who was obsessed with it. So much so that he got a roaster like this:
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Last day at my current job. Came in this morning to decorated cubicle with photos from the last 3 years all around my desk. Great group of people I have been blessed to work with. Having a catered meal and ymm, beer and ymm, wine as a send off at 5:00:)
As an interesting aside (to me, at least), I met my coffee roaster bawana when I went to his shop looking for a neon-bending artiste to breathe life into some art/sketches from our daughter. He repairs neon signs as well as doing custom work out of a 15x30 storefront/workshop. As cramped as it was, it was even more crowded because of a human-sized contraption in the front of the shop. Turned out to be his coffee roaster; a side interest.
We struck up an extended conversation and suspect we are now friends for life.
Here's what he built for us - which I consider a family heirloom:
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Approximate scale is 40" x 50"
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