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Time Off From Work: Using Sabbaticals To Enhance Your Life While Keeping Your Career On Track • Lisa Rogak
If you’re convinced you want a sabbatical, there’s no need to read this book. But if you’re stuck in the how’s and why’s, it’s for you, although keep in mind the date of publication. Features experience of 50 professionals who have done it.
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Six Months Off: How to Plan, Negotiate, and Take the Break You Need Without Burning Bridges or Going Broke • Hope Dlugozima, James Scott & David Sharp
A great step-by-step guide, but resources are outdated. Case studies are inspiring and include examples of families who successfully enroll children in schools abroad. Despite its age, the “how to” aspects of this book still make it a great resource. Sections on overcoming obstacles, choosing the right sabbatical for you, negotiating one, checklist before you [...]
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Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel • Rolf Potts
Answers the question “why travel?” Exercises your imagination and discovery for what might be possible in 6 weeks to 4 months. Realistic view of what happens when you return and how life will be different after adventures. If you are looking for a “how to on $5 a day,” this is not it. But if [...]
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The Career Break Book: Leave Your Job, Live Your Dream • Joe Bindloss & Andrew Dean Nystrom
A Lonely Planet guide that includes advice from “career-breakers”, trip-planning suggestions, and other information to show you how to “swap your briefcase for a passport and live your dream”. The book is largely focused on travel options for a sabbatical and how to handle practical loose ends such as your house, pets, and vehicles while [...]
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Time Off For Good Behavior: How Hardworking Women Can Take a Break and Change Their Lives • Mary Lou Quinlan
For Type A women. Quinlan took 5 weeks off and book includes stories from 37 other women who did something similar. Includes work lists/questionnaires to spur action. Working too hard? Feeling the burn? This book might be for you. Quinlan, who took time off from her job as CEO of a NY advertising agency, tells [...]
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Family Sabbatical Handbook: The Budget Guide To Living Abroad With Your Family • Elisa Bernick
Bernick offers what she wished she’d had when she and her husband were planning an 18-month sabbatical with children. Excellent anecdotal examples, list of resources, and outline of benefits of travel for children. Touches all bases before you go, including finances and language. An excellent guide.
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Escape 101: The Four Secrets to Taking a Sabbatical or Career Break Without Losing Your Money or Your Mind • Dan Clements & Tara Gignac
An engaging, practical guide to taking extended time off. The authors, a husband-wife team who have experienced several sabbaticals and are planning their next one, also maintain a good website/blog.
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The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich • Tim Ferriss
Why burn yourself out when you can defer to perpetual happiness? Ferriss has garnered a cult-like following. Although he discusses “mini-retirements” in a way that irks those of us who are sabbatical advocates, the principles are still the same - and we think he’s a rock star. The book is good for helping clarify principles [...]
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