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Don’t quit your day job

A leave of absence is (usually) better than quitting and looking for a job later. Unless your financial situation is secure and you don’t need the group health insurance available through work, try for a leave of absence.If an employee wants to take a personal-enrichment break, says John Challenger, the CEO of Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a Chicago outplacement consulting firm, “companies are much more agreeable about working out an arrangement that allows them to come back.”

A 2007 survey of nearly 600 U.S. companies by the Society for Human Resource Management said that though only 4% offered paid sabbaticals, 17% made some form of unpaid leave available. Those percentages, which have held steady for several years, are likely to rise in a tight job market.

Understand, however, that your employer can’t keep your specific job open forever. The longer your sabbatical is, the less likely it is that you will be able to come back to your current position.

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