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  • RE: Sabbatical

    george sibbald (1/10/2014)

    learn how to make your own hawaiian shirts?

    ROFL, I have wanted to learn how to sew. Perhaps I'll tag this into something I do. Maybe as a "20...

    January 11, 2014 at 11:27 am

    #1679380

  • RE: Sabbatical

    KWymore (1/9/2014)

    Train for a marathon and get a bunch of people to sponsor you for charity. Then run it about a week before you have to go back to work....

    January 11, 2014 at 11:26 am

    #1679379

  • RE: The Desktop Setup

    Beatrix Kiddo (1/10/2014)

    I've asked in the past about getting desks we could stand at, still no luck on that.

    You can get some great standing desks nowadays. I'm not...

    January 11, 2014 at 11:20 am

    #1679378

  • RE: The Desktop Setup

    IowaDave (1/10/2014)

    A couple people have mentioned it already, but if you're not using a clipboard capture tool, you are missing out. I use ClipCache at work and loved/missed it...

    January 11, 2014 at 11:18 am

    #1679377

  • RE: The Desktop Setup

    Michael_Garrison (1/10/2014)

    One of my pet peeves is that every company I ever worked for in past 20+ years are so dang cheap on the PC's and laptop's they provide. ...

    January 11, 2014 at 11:14 am

    #1679376

  • RE: Sabbatical

    jshahan (1/9/2014)

    Do the inward journey. Start with something like Siddhartha (the book by Hermann Hesse). Check out some of Joseph Campbell's work (Power of Myth, Hero With a...

    January 9, 2014 at 4:56 pm

    #1679015

  • RE: Sabbatical

    jshahan (1/9/2014)

    Also, there is an excellent exercise in Covey's "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" that I would highly recommend to put you in touch with things that are important...

    January 9, 2014 at 4:56 pm

    #1679014

  • RE: Sabbatical

    ferrijd (1/9/2014)

    Hi Steve,

    If it were me, I would do a combination of things focused mainly on giving back: Take the time to stop and pick up some trash in my...

    January 9, 2014 at 4:52 pm

    #1679013

  • RE: Sabbatical

    dwhitley (1/9/2014)

    3) Build the next Candy Crush or Farmville to take control of people's free (work?) time

    LOL, if only I had a good idea here. I'd probably spend 4-5 weeks...

    January 9, 2014 at 12:31 pm

    #1678940

  • RE: Sabbatical

    hcDBA (1/9/2014)

    :arrow:Here's an idea for you that would benefit you, your family, and your friends as well.

    Learn more about taking good care of our bodies. I mean learning more...

    January 9, 2014 at 12:29 pm

    #1678939

  • RE: Sabbatical

    Ben Westfall (1/9/2014)

    Learn to fly!

    http://www.aopa.org/Pilot-Resources/Learn-to-Fly

    -Ben

    Afraid of heights. I don't like big planes, and don't get on little ones.

    January 9, 2014 at 12:17 pm

    #1678934

  • RE: Sabbatical

    below86 (1/9/2014)

    If this is an annual benefit I would try looking long term at what you want to accomplish in life, outside of work.

    ....

    Now if I could...

    January 9, 2014 at 12:16 pm

    #1678933

  • RE: Sabbatical

    Jack Corbett (1/9/2014)

    For me a sabbatical, if it needed to be non-work related, would have something to do with sports. Since my oldest son is really into...

    January 9, 2014 at 12:15 pm

    #1678932

  • RE: Sabbatical

    John Hanrahan (1/9/2014)

    You've mentioned in the past that you run at least some for fitness. You could go for 6 weeks of fitness crazy. It's now well established...

    January 9, 2014 at 12:14 pm

    #1678931

  • RE: Sabbatical

    DavidL (1/9/2014)

    I didn't notice in the editorial or any of the links an explanation of what Red Gate expects a sabbatical to be about. It sounds like they have...

    January 9, 2014 at 12:13 pm

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