Bonus - Career Breaks

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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from the Zero to Travel Podcast: How to Start Planning Your First (Or Next) Career Break Today (Using 5 Simple Steps) with Cali O´Connor Have you thought about hitting pause on your career to travel the world but are unsure how to make it a reality? It’s not as unattainable as you may think! Cali O’Connor shares her experience of taking multiple career breaks and offers 5 practical steps to start planning your own career break today. Cali is a former chemical engineer who traded her career in the oilfield for a life-changing adventure of quitting her job to travel around the world. Now, she helps working professionals find clarity in their lives by taking a career break that gives them the freedom to travel, explore, and realign with their life goals. Whether you dream of quitting your job or taking a temporary pause, this episode will give you the confidence and strategies to take that leap. You’ll hear about her biggest mistakes during her first career break (and how to avoid them), insights on overcoming common fears such as financial insecurity and leaving a stable job, travel advice to save time and money, and lessons on concurring travel burnout. https://zerototravel.com/career-break-cali-oconnor/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:57.0	This is Chris from Amateur Traveler, and this is not a typical amateur traveler episode.
1:02.5	This is a bonus episode, and it is, in fact, not an episode of Amateur Traveler at all.
1:07.5	It is an episode of the Zero to Travel podcast from my friend Jason Moore. We're doing a
1:13.9	feed swap where one of my episodes is going on their feed and one of theirs is going on mine,
1:18.2	but I want to talk about why I chose this episode because this is about taking a career break.
1:23.5	And taking a career break is something that I did. After working for a startup company for 14 years, and when I left that company July 10 of 2010,
1:34.0	I took some time off because I was pretty burnt to a crisp from working a startup for that long
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