"Enjoy a high-stress career, buy escapist vacations and status-driven compensatory consumption to finance the stress tax of your job. Trade your healthiest years for a distant retirement, ignore the toll on our health, your relationships, and the creativity of your youth."

Are you having fun yet?

12 billion working days are lost annually due to anxiety and depression alone caused by reduced workplace productivity and absenteeism. In an era defined by disruption and longevity, the traditional linear career model is dead.

The next hundred years will be defined by a transition from the three-stage model of education, work, and retirement to a multi-stage existence characterized by lifelong learning and intermittent career reboots.

As the boundaries between life and work blur, success belongs to those who view their career as a design project rather than a predetermined path.

This is the blueprint for planning your next career break.