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So You Want to Take a Career Break

Jeff Sloan, Principal Consultant, Data Product People

Feeling burnt out in your high-status data job? Before making drastic changes, understand you're not alone. Explore the three phases of taking a career break and discover how to find renewed purpose and satisfaction in your professional journey.

Talk overview

Burnt out? Unfulfilled? Terrified of leaving your high status data job? Before you burn it all down and buy a goat farm in Minnesota, realize: you are not alone.

In this talk, Jeff Sloan, Principal Consultant at Data Product People, walks through the three phases of taking a career break from data: Discovery, Planning, and Disconnecting.

You'll leave with: clear expectations on the value of a career break, a roadmap of what to do as you hit "pause" on your career, and Suggestions as you reintegrate back into your career.

The goats can wait.

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