[hamburglar1]

I'm 24 and quit my tech job in November to become a ski instructor. It was the season of a lifetime for sure, not just hedonistically, but holistically. Stepping out of the "working world" gives you perspective on what really matters to you and how you want to organize your life. When you are skiing everyday, you realize that you really don't need a whole lot to live on the day to day. You make friends because you share an intense common interest with everyone in town. You see the lifestyles of people outside the tech bubble and that inevitably causes self-reflection.

It won't hurt your career and I've had no problem in a few interviews explain why I went and what I learned.

Feel free to AMA but if you have the money to last 6 months in a cheap apartment drinking cheap beer and eating half-off specials, send it.