Two sabbaticals. Yes, they're on my resume.

If you're reading my resume and wondering about those two Personal Sabbaticals, I put the dates there for you. May 2017 through March 2018, and May 2019 through February 2020.

Jobs get dates, and so does the part where I deliberately went somewhere else for a while. Leaving a blank space and making you play employment detective would be a pretty damned stupid way to explain it.

The first was a solo ten-month road trip across 19 states, studying DevOps[1]Ref. 1DevOps en.wikipedia.org practices and Infrastructure as Code[2]Ref. 2Infrastructure as Code en.wikipedia.org along the way. The second was international travel for cultural immersion, including Indonesia[3]Ref. 3Indonesia en.wikipedia.org, where I learned conversational Bahasa Indonesia[4]Ref. 4Bahasa Indonesia en.wikipedia.org. I returned early because of COVID-19.

I'm not dressing that trip up as ten months of technical training with scenery. It was a road trip. I learned things I went on to use, but I don't need to make it sound like a corporate workshop to justify being away. The dates are staying on the page.