Funny

Only works if you are not working a shitty job and living paycheck to paycheck. Good fucking luck in most economies greedy billionaires are keeping this from happening.

I thought Gen Z aren't really into drinking or drugs. I hope they do this. Make holes in your resume the norm so they can't hold anything against you. I have friends that did/do this and they got it out of their system. They're pretty happy with their lives.

I've got a buddy who does a variation of this. He's got a little shack pretty close to town. He'll work in the oil field for a few months, come hang out with everyone, and live a "normal" life. Then when he's saved up enough he rolls out and lives in the woods with his dog hunting and fishing and growing veggies. We go by and check on his place every so often to make sure no one has broken in and it's not rotting to the ground.

When he no longer has the money to stay in the woods he comes back. I say that, but he's got the skills to feed himself out there. I think he gets bored after a year or two and wants to be around people for a while.

I asked him about retirement once and he's got another shack right on a lake that's been paid off since the 90s. His plan is to go there and fish and not come back.

This only works without kids.

You'd have to find a job that pays enough for this lifestyle. And with the kind of resume this produces, it's a pipe dream.

This is a Gen X thing but whatever

If you're ever on the backpacking circuit you'll meet people like that. They work just long enough to save up for their next trip.

"Sounds like we're paying these guys too much"

Boomer here - that's pretty much how I managed my software career. Do a contract job for 6 mos to a year, then do theatre until I needed to work again. Had to go back to fulltime work once I got married and had kids. I miss those days tho. Also, fuck your tiny stereotyping brain if you think a whole generation has the same likes and dislikes.

She thinks the jobs will be waiting for her. That’s adorable.

Im already doing this, can recommend

I work in a place where they had specific arrangements for that.

It was something like after 5 years of employment there you could take a year off and come back to the same position you left.

Bad idea because

1. Jobs hiring will complain about the gaps in your resume
2. when you are too old to work anymore you will have nothing

Healthcare costs in the US is usually the blocker for me when I think about extended stays as a hermit.

A woman I know worked as an escort on and off and spent most of her time traveling, but I don't think most people have the looks and the charisma to do that even if they want to. I'm not sure what other careers both pay enough and let you quit and then start again easily, but presumably there are some.

I’ve done this for the past several years. Not on purpose. I keep telling myself I’ll settle down.

I got a new job a year ago. It looked promising and I was ready to make a life here. But I don’t see myself in it. Leaving soon. Saved enough for modest living and adventurous cheapish traveling for at least a year.

Before that job I was mostly on the road for a year and a half, with some temporary odd jobs here and there.

It has its pros and cons. It’s exciting and adventurous. Sometimes it’s intense. I basically have no retirement savings. Super hard to find a partner.

I wish. It takes me around 6 months and hundreds of applications to get a job. That strategy isn't sustainable for me.

So just longer “camp” work? Some people work for 3 months and get a month off.

I knew a landscaper who would work for the 6 months you can and then all winter would go and stay on the mountains. The company he worked for only needed to keep a couple guys for snow clearing, so it worked perfectly.

Didn’t know this phenomenon had a name. That’s what I’m doing right now however. I want to have enough money to be unemployed for a year or two.

This gets a lot easier if you have somewhere reliable and preferably free to stay when you need to start working again. Even if you have paid off your own place or been given a place for free you have bills to pay on it. I guess you can rent it out while you are away, but that seems less than ideal to me as how do you keep it maintained if you aren't in the country? It just ends up being another cost.

I would have loved to have done this but the housing situation has always put me off.

I did one cycle of it, but now I'm too burnt out and despaired and in need of medical care to think of going back to any form of employment and I'm really lucky that I dont have to worry about it too much