[AndrewKemendo]

I'll add my voice to the Sabbatical Chorus.

I am on month 7 of my sabbatical and it has completely changed my life for the better

[mr-karan]

Could you please share more about your experience? What did you do these 7 months and in what way it changed your life? I'm pretty curious as I am dreaming about taking one someday in future :)

[AndrewKemendo]

Thanks for asking.

Spending as much time with my (3) kids as possible before they leave home for good. I took a week of silence in the mountains last summer. Had multiple existential crises which led to a total transformation of my person.

The primary thing I'm doing though is pouring myself into creating as many mutual cooperative communities - that are not intermediated by money/commerce - as possible.

I wrote a treatise on Scarcity: https://kemendo.com/Myth.pdf

I'm starting a municipal waste cooperative: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34226557

I am working with my alma mater - USAF Academy - on a new class to teach cadets basic infrastructure (wastewater, electrical grid etc...)

I teach spin on Sundays at Lifetime fitness

I also manage a support group for about 15 CEOs and organize a dinner every quarter or so

I've done a few small contracts but otherwise living on savings