Comments on: What I Did on My Sabbatical from Intel http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/2008/01/what-did-sabbatical-from-intel/ Edge Case, Community Builder, Tinkerer, and Teacher Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:37:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Joseph Murray http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/2008/01/what-did-sabbatical-from-intel/#comment-66327 Joseph Murray Sun, 04 May 2008 23:15:13 +0000 http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/2008/01/back-to-work-after-sabbatical/#comment-66327 Congrats on your successful escape. Also I'm happy to see that Amazon took charge of this with the release of Kindle. I'm sure the future will bring even more cool advances with other e-readers as well as with future versions of Amazon's Kindle. Joseph Congrats on your successful escape. Also I’m happy to see that Amazon took charge of this with the release of Kindle. I’m sure the future will bring even more cool advances with other e-readers as well as with future versions of Amazon’s Kindle.

Joseph

]]> By: Mike http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/2008/01/what-did-sabbatical-from-intel/#comment-51588 Mike Sat, 05 Jan 2008 09:30:25 +0000 http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/2008/01/back-to-work-after-sabbatical/#comment-51588 Nice wrap-up, Josh. For the most part, I think you succeeded on your sabbatical. My sabbatical in 2004 was my attempt to get as close to my kids as possible as they were beginning their teen years, 13 and 15. I also wanted to take the time to give them some life lessons. And spend some quality time with my wife, of course. My kids were almost assuredly tired of Dad by the time sabbatical ended and I'm pretty sure my wife was ready to say goodbye the morning I started back to work. But I did get to read more, the process worked and that made the experience extremely meaningful to me. While I didn't change the world, as some of my Intel colleagues did during their sabbaticals, I did affect my little world and I've had three years perspective to see the positive effects on my children--who are probably my most important lifetime accomplishment. Sounds to me like you did the right things. Sabbatical is awesome, good luck poking the beehive in 2008! Nice wrap-up, Josh. For the most part, I think you succeeded on your sabbatical.

My sabbatical in 2004 was my attempt to get as close to my kids as possible as they were beginning their teen years, 13 and 15. I also wanted to take the time to give them some life lessons. And spend some quality time with my wife, of course.

My kids were almost assuredly tired of Dad by the time sabbatical ended and I’m pretty sure my wife was ready to say goodbye the morning I started back to work. But I did get to read more, the process worked and that made the experience extremely meaningful to me.

While I didn’t change the world, as some of my Intel colleagues did during their sabbaticals, I did affect my little world and I’ve had three years perspective to see the positive effects on my children–who are probably my most important lifetime accomplishment.

Sounds to me like you did the right things. Sabbatical is awesome, good luck poking the beehive in 2008!

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