A career break doesn’t reinvent you. What you do in it does.
22 years of non stop working and then one fine day I decided that this is it. I need to move on. No, not a knee jerk reaction. A decision that was waiting to be taken for over a year. Fear of failure in getting a new job held me back. However, after contemplating a lot and discussing with my wife I went ahead and took that decision. It was a calculated risk. Many around think that it was foolish of me to have done that. I myself on few occasions when I am feeling low, had thought on similar lines. Then when I put things in perspective, I realized that the break has actually helped me explore areas I would not have explored otherwise. Being lost in the daily grind in the career and the long working hours, I would not have used AI to build products. I had never done that before but AI allowed my solutioning mind to convert ideas into products. I got into insurance too and understood how things work over there. I learnt freely, I met different people in my insurance journey. I...