We discuss our experiences with unofficial industry sabbaticals, aka taking time between jobs for our own projects.

Topics:

* Funemployment versus sabbatical

* Robert's 2021 sabbatical building sandbox.bio learning platform and 42basepairs genomics cloud platform

* Maria's 2017 OMGenomics entrepreneurship experience, building Circa visualization software and a YouTube channel

* Sabbatical projects helping you get the next job

* Satisfaction and meaning from personal projects

Links:

* Ask us a question!: omgenomics.com/podcast

* 42basepairs.com (Robert's genomics cloud platform)

* sandbox.bio (Robert's bioinformatics learning platform)

* omgenomics.com/circa (Maria's visualization tool)

* youtube.com/omgenomics (Maria's YouTube channel)

* OMGenomics Q&A episode featuring Robert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SfDHheyKBU&ab_channel=OMGenomics

Where to find us online:

https://omgenomics.com