This is well worth replying to, it surfaces some culture/class things which are worth making explicit.
Being responsible about the future is important, but let's phrase the goal as "savings upon retirement", rather than "retirement savings".
A sabbatical can help with that in a few ways, but first let's talk about the gap.
A sabbatical is not a gap in one's resume, it's a sabbatical. What's done with that time is open-ended, but one of the things it does is provide a useful line item.
This is in fact a class thing. People of independent means will take time off to improve their careers. Real talk, I can't stress this enough: don't buy a sabbatical, or a Porche, if you can't afford it.
They don't put this on their resume, but rather, on their C.V.
I'm not from those people, but growing up in a university town, one gets to know them.
A sabbatical is good if: you can write an open-source library in your niches which solves a problem, if you expand the breadth of your expertise, if what you're doing has a significant philanthropic angle. All of these can set someone up for a higher tier of job, something with better prospects.
It's good to have a comfortable nest egg, and it's even better if when you do, you have the kind of respect and stake in your field where you don't actually retire. Emeritus is a wonderful Latin loanword. May we all merit emeritus.
Being responsible about the future is important, but let's phrase the goal as "savings upon retirement", rather than "retirement savings".
A sabbatical can help with that in a few ways, but first let's talk about the gap.
A sabbatical is not a gap in one's resume, it's a sabbatical. What's done with that time is open-ended, but one of the things it does is provide a useful line item.
This is in fact a class thing. People of independent means will take time off to improve their careers. Real talk, I can't stress this enough: don't buy a sabbatical, or a Porche, if you can't afford it.
They don't put this on their resume, but rather, on their C.V.
I'm not from those people, but growing up in a university town, one gets to know them.
A sabbatical is good if: you can write an open-source library in your niches which solves a problem, if you expand the breadth of your expertise, if what you're doing has a significant philanthropic angle. All of these can set someone up for a higher tier of job, something with better prospects.
It's good to have a comfortable nest egg, and it's even better if when you do, you have the kind of respect and stake in your field where you don't actually retire. Emeritus is a wonderful Latin loanword. May we all merit emeritus.