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A career break can change your life - Quitting my corporate job


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Why I left my corporate job 3 times and how a career break can change your life.


0:00 Career breaks are a weird concept

0:47 Leaving my first office job to do my own thing

1:50 Quitting my job…again

2:06 Not everyone can do a career break

3:11 How we're taught to be compliant and dependent in school

3:52 A career break can nudge us in the right direction

5:09 What I was doing in my corporate job

5:51 The dangers of staying in a white collar job

6:32 Common criticism of the career break

7:02 The culture and types of people in corporate

8:35 Why it's so hard to get ahead in the evenings and weekends

9:53 Making a quantum leap on a career break

10:56 Investing in yourself

12:32 Are career breaks a financial step backwards?

16:00 We're told to always work for someone else

17:24 What I've learned from all my career breaks

19:01 The "right" way to view employment

20:29 Most people are scared to take a lot of time off

21:09 How humans naturally evolved to "work"

22:55 It's easier to live on less than to work a more stressful job

25:40 We get used to being provided for by a corporate job

26:21 Not taking our opportunities for granted

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The Roman TimesBy Roman Krem