Career Break Initiated!
I'm back again with another update! Following up from my previous post, our family has finally embarked on our 6 month sabbatical from work and we are currently in Malaysia! Coincidentally, today is my birthday and it felt appropriate to have a new journal entry during this very interesting period in our lives. About a month after my last post, my wife received news that her company was intending to have a reduction in force and her group would most likely be a target to cut. This pushed our plan to step away from work forward about half a year earlier than we intended. However, after long discussions with my wife and teetering back and forth on making a firm decision, we booked a 1way flight to Hanoi and that sealed the deal that our trip would happen. We were terribly nervous about the logistics of the trip, but planting our foot and booking the trip forced us to move forward with our plans. Prior to this trip, I was also incredibly nervous about how to relay my decision to resi...