Employers like you to be desperate, so demonstrating that you can afford (whether through finances, friends, or foraging) to not work for a long stretch of time indicates that you won’t be negotiating with them from a position of dependency.
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It also suggests you might be willing to walk away from an incompatible work situation, whether due to workplace toxicity or your own outside priorities, which can be scary to the person you'll be reporting to.
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My response: "I'm a software developer. Middle manager douchebags told me they don't need my services because they think they can code their apps themselves. Ain't my first rodeo. They'll beg us come back to maintain this shit."
(Happened last time with VBA.)
"Ok, so you are potentially coming back to your previous employer soon. I guess we shouldn't hire your then."
I have a small consultancy with several staff.
Couldn't care less about a gap on someone's resume.
I wouldn't ask but if someone told me they'd taken a year off to get stoned every day and watch judge judy that's not a deal breaker.
If anything, having enough cash saved up to live an entire year with no work, and buy that much weed, demonstrates strong financial management skills
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I'd guess that filling the gap with pretty much anything is better then leaving an actual gap. Maybe add a proof from police that you weren't in jail or something.
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"I won the lotto and had the funds to not do shit for 3 years."
But what if he wins again?
- The potential employer
"some of your other, lesser applicants needed to 'work' to 'pay bills'. me, I'm a leader, I don't work for anyone. I inspire, I drive those beneath me to further productivity, raise profit margins, and fire those I don't like just shy of the one-year probation deadline. I don't need this company, this company needs me."
dramatic pause
"$250k, 6 months paid vacation, and a company car. Actually, you seem like a good guy, I'll take just 5 months and 3 weeks instead, just for you."
so far, most haven't cared. there was one recruiter really caught up on it, but that call had at least 3 major red flags, so I wasn't too worried. I think next time I'll ask them why they haven't taken one themselves?
They do. It could mean you were unable to find a job or hiding where you worked because you didn't do a good job
I love the “unable to find a job” one. Like, IT’S BECAUSE OF FUCKING GAP! HIRE ME, IDIOT!
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I was specifically called back to be asked about this. It felt so weird because in my country this is not a common question
That was my "On the lam" year. It worked, and here I am. When do I start?
People care. When on interview committees I've had to argue that gaps aren't relevant. Maybe it's someone with the ability to plan and save and they decided to take a year or ten off. Maybe their independently wealthy and is doing it for fun. They probably lost a job at a bad time, couldn't get hired for 8 months and then got fucked by a gap in their resume for another 18. Some of these gaps are even old. Like what do we care about three months fifteen years ago. Even if that's a job they got fired from right away it's olllld.
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