Reflections on my Sabbatical - by Ray Liu - Ray’s Substack

Recently, I took a career break that was four months long. It started with simply realizing that I was more interested in pursuing personal growth over professional growth as my next step after one of my main freelance consulting contracts concluded. Thus, I decided to take one month off of career work and see where things took me. This took me down a journey that I couldn’t have imagined at the start, with many twists and turns, including very positive and meaningful experiences of personal growth that feel hard to describe in words. At the end of each month, I reviewed how that month went, evaluated if it made sense to take another month off from a personal growth and financial standpoint, and set intentions and focus areas for the next month. Thanks for reading Ray’s Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. As I’ve started back up with pursuing career opportunities again, I hope to reflect on my learnings from my time off, give words to some of these ex

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