re: What’s the longest you’ve not worked as an adult?

Since my retirement in March

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What’s the longest you’ve not worked as an adult

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Spent 5 months recovering from a stroke….attended speech therapy every day. Had to re-learn how to speak.

I quit my job once—before kids, late 20s—to chase a few big contracts that I was able to organize and win. I pretty much worked for two years then bummed around doing 5 hours of work weekly for two years collecting the largest checks of my young life, before making a career change.

It took me a solid year of networking to get a job I wanted, and that was a tough year, not financially, but mentally. I learned that a man must labor, socialize, and/or travel almost continuously to avoid going insane.

I can empathize with anyone out of work and under the gun though, that’s never something I faced after college. I had a parachute built up after 2-3 years working.

I'm about to find out. Just had retina reattached in left eye yesterday. Doc says 4-6 weeks to start getting sight back in that eye.

2 weeks one time when it was between jobs and I had to move to another state.

Outside of that, never more than a 1 week vacation - and I was answering work calls, responding to text messages and reading/replying to emails most of the time just to avoid falling behind.

That’s why I retired at age 55. It was all worth it in the end.

1 month between fellowship and getting a job.

Had to move states.