better titles: "i had a bad vacation", "my mini-retirement misconception"
i appreciate this person's thoughts, they're very insightful. but to try and use his individual situation and experiences to represent the set of all mini-retirements is fallacious.
This guy had vacations, he had a trip, but he did not travel. He just brought his "occidental" mental conception of living elsewhere, he didn't even seem to have really met and lived with other people.
What's with this trend of calling a vacation a "mini-retirement" anyway? Three months may be longer than average for a vacation, but lots of people have taken that sort of time out between jobs without needing to call it a "mini-retirement".
i think its a misconception (see what i did there?) about the concept. "mini-retirement" is supposed to refer to a longer period of time where you're taking a break from your primary career, but you have plans to go back. i'd define it as at least 6 months.
it doesn't have to involve travel, and you don't have to stop working or engaging yourself in projects. just like being actually retired.
I think it's part of our culture adapting from the idea of one career and a retirement at the end of it, to several, with breaks in between. The semantics are interesting: it probably would have been called a sabbatical 20 years ago.
That's a good explanation. I quite like the concept of calling a break between careers a mini-retirement. In this case, though, it doesn't seem to have been anything like that, but just a simple three month extended vacation.
it still can be referred to as that, except, in my experience, there's an understanding that with a sabbatical, you're arranging things so that you come back to the same job. i don't think thats necessarily the case with a mini-retirement.
i appreciate this person's thoughts, they're very insightful. but to try and use his individual situation and experiences to represent the set of all mini-retirements is fallacious.