How to Take a Career Break

How to Take a Career Break
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The Associated Press
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Back in 2016, Jamie Clark of Seattle was a software engineer who planned to take a year off of work to finish a master’s degree in computational linguistics. One year turned into three and a career change into financial planning.

Nowadays, Clark, who uses they/them pronouns, believes the experience makes them a better advisor—particularly since their career break didn’t turn out as originally planned.