I Quit My Corporate Job and Took An Adult Gap Year
No, I didn’t join an ashram in India
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6 min readMar 22, 2021
When I was 17, the thought of postponing college for a gap year never crossed my mind. While it may have sounded nice to spend a year traveling, volunteering, and doing other activities to further “personal growth” — for financial and cultural reasons, it was neither a consideration nor a real option.