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A career break can change your life - Quitting my corporate job

28 min · 9 de jul de 2025
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Why I left my corporate job 3 times and how a career break can change your life. 0:00 Career breaks are a weird concept 0:47 Leaving my first office job to do my own thing 1:50 Quitting my job…again 2:06 Not everyone can do a career break 3:11 How we're taught to be compliant and dependent in school 3:52 A career break can nudge us in the right direction 5:09 What I was doing in my corporate job 5:51 The dangers of staying in a white collar job 6:32 Common criticism of the career break 7:02 The culture and types of people in corporate 8:35 Why it's so hard to get ahead in the evenings and weekends 9:53 Making a quantum leap on a career break 10:56 Investing in yourself 12:32 Are career breaks a financial step backwards? 16:00 We're told to always work for someone else 17:24 What I've learned from all my career breaks 19:01 The "right" way to view employment 20:29 Most people are scared to take a lot of time off 21:09 How humans naturally evolved to "work" 22:55 It's easier to live on less than to work a more stressful job 25:40 We get used to being provided for by a corporate job 26:21 Not taking our opportunities for granted

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A career break can change your life - Quitting my corporate job

Why I left my corporate job 3 times and how a career break can change your life. 0:00 Career breaks are a weird concept 0:47 Leaving my first office job to do my own thing 1:50 Quitting my job…again 2:06 Not everyone can do a career break 3:11 How we're taught to be compliant and dependent in school 3:52 A career break can nudge us in the right direction 5:09 What I was doing in my corporate job 5:51 The dangers of staying in a white collar job 6:32 Common criticism of the career break 7:02 The culture and types of people in corporate 8:35 Why it's so hard to get ahead in the evenings and weekends 9:53 Making a quantum leap on a career break 10:56 Investing in yourself 12:32 Are career breaks a financial step backwards? 16:00 We're told to always work for someone else 17:24 What I've learned from all my career breaks 19:01 The "right" way to view employment 20:29 Most people are scared to take a lot of time off 21:09 How humans naturally evolved to "work" 22:55 It's easier to live on less than to work a more stressful job 25:40 We get used to being provided for by a corporate job 26:21 Not taking our opportunities for granted

9 de jul de 202528 min