Ask HN: Should I go on sabbatical even if I'm afraid of it?
Hello guys, I'm a 39-year old Italian software engineer with 10 years of experience, and I'm afraid of going on a sabbatical. My background is quite different from my peers: even though I have a respectable and loveable family, when I was a young adult, I left my studies after secondary school and made a lot of mistakes and wrong decisions that eventually led me to commit different crimes, including a robbery, for which I spent some time in jail. After that experience, I was in my 20s, finding a job was hard, and I only worked as blue-collar for small-term jobs. I also started suffering anxiety and panic attacks, and I was afraid of many things, especially working and finding a job. While working temporarily in a call center, I decided to go to an evening school to have more options on the table, and when I was 25, I successfully took a high school diploma in IT. My goal was to
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Hello guys, I'm a 39-year old Italian software engineer with 10 years of experience, and I'm afraid of going on a sabbatical. My background is quite different from my peers: even though I have a respectable and loveable family, when I was a young adult, I left my studie
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- gabrieledarrigo
- Ended
- 2022
- Source
- hackernews