The title isn't all that it's cracked up to be, but I recently took a big risk. I decided that I needed to stop working. Not for long because I still want to do a lot of travel, but I need a break from the day to day of a 9-5. I've admittedly felt less and less like myself over the past year and then this week everything just became clear. I got to the deadline of a big project and realized "I hate this". I've done this before in life as well. Happened when I dropped out of grad school and again when I decided to switch careers into devops. I don't think there is anything wrong with switching priorities in life and doing something different. We only live once and you should explore as many possibilities as you can. ## So what are you going to do? SLEEP! Seriously that's what I'm most excited about. Outside of sleeping I'm going to just finish a few certs for real and job search. I want to stay in the SRE/Sys Admin field if at all possible since I really like it. I'm not 100% sure what that means for the skills I need to beef up but we will take care of that as time goes on. Lastly I'm going to have fun. This hopefully short time to relax will allow me to explore hobbies a bit. I'd like to build a functional API in go if I can as a proof of concept for something else I'd like to do down the line. I'm not making any promises though. ## Your basically winging it? Yes...yes I am. Hopefully you enjoy the journey with me and I can crank out a few extra post detailing things I'm learning, changing, or building. Whatever is done I hope to keep going for the next 6mos atleast.