"We both love to travel, so in an effort to dream a little, I said, "Let's make a list of all the places we want to go." I'm a bit of a spreadsheet nerd, so I took his list and mine, ranked them, and combined them into one massive spreadsheet. It was my little form of stress relief. At the time, I was working on the operations team at a startup in LA, and my schedule had become a lot more intense."
"I opened my laptop at 7 a.m. and closed it at midnight. I loved my job, but I was feeling burned out. On the rough days, I'd look at that list and dream about African safaris or going to Antarctica. One morning, while my husband was making me a cappuccino, I decided to pitch the idea to him: "Hey babe, what if we quit our jobs and traveled around the world for three months?" And he said, "OK, sounds good.""
Maria Laposata, 32, worked on the operations team at a Los Angeles startup and became increasingly burned out while working long days from a one-bedroom apartment turned office. She and her husband made a ranked spreadsheet of travel destinations as a stress-relief exercise, then chose to quit their jobs and plan a yearlong trip, saving and handling logistics over time. The travel gap provided renewal, broadened perspective, and unexpectedly became a differentiator in later job interviews. The experience also led to entrepreneurial work in travel consulting through her company, Travelries.
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