A gap year is a dream for many people who work diligently at their companies every day.
The concept of "Gap Year" comes from the West, where it is a tradition for young people in Western countries to take a year off before going to college or working to experience a completely different life than they used to by traveling, interning, or going to a new culture and learning a new language or craft. The life of a new person. It's called a Gap Year, and it's like a break in the continuum of the past.
The tradition comes from the 17th-century "The Grand Tour" of the sons of the British aristocracy, when the aristocrats turned 17 and went on the Grand Tour, which was the first time they'd ever been to the United Kingdom. When they turned 17, the aristocrats, accompanied by one of the family's butlers, would spend a few years traveling around Europe, visiting museums, learning languages and broadening their horizons - until they became real men before returning home to carry on the family business. This was the earliest Gap Year.
In recent years, young people in China have also gradually begun to accept the Gap Year. According to statistics, in 2016, "Gap Year" has successfully ranked among the top 5 favorite graduation destinations of China's post-95s, and "Gap Year" is not only limited to college students, but also more working people, entrepreneurs, and secondary school students can join Gap Year at some stage of their lives. The first time I've seen this, I've seen it in my life.
The first time I came across a gap year was when I read a book called "The Late Gap Year", whose author, Sun Dongchun, left the city where he had lived for many years in December 2006 with an international bank card containing only 21,000 RMB, and traveled for thirteen months instead of the three he had originally planned, traveling and serving as a volunteer along the way.
The first time I was in the United States, I was in the United States, and I was in the United States.
Then I saw Fu Zhen and Mingji and Gap Year live on the Internet, and got to know Gap Year firsthand. Fu Zhen previously worked for an investment bank in the UK, but in May 2011 she and her husband, Mingji, quit their jobs, said goodbye to eight years of life in the UK, and began a gap year traveling through Latin America and Asia, ending their trip 16 months later when they returned to their home country to settle down.
I wanted to go on a gap year, but I didn't have the courage to go away for a year, I didn't have the money saved up to go away for a year, I didn't know if a long period of time traveling would allow me to enjoy the process all the time, and I was worried about whether or not I could find a job when I came back from the Gap year, so I opted for a middle-of-the-road solution. 2011, when I was 30 years old, I resigned from the job and took a 2-month Gap month to myself. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to find the best way to do this, but I'm sure you're going to be able to find the best way to do it.
In these two months, I went to Yunnan alone with a backpack, lazed around in the Erhai Sea, danced aimlessly with Tibetans in Shangri-La every day, stayed in a co-ed hostel in Lijiang, and was blown away by the Meili Snow Mountain in the early morning.
I met a lovely 9-year-old girl Xinyi in Lhasa, was injured by a yak topping in Namucuo, was touched by a long-lost cup of coffee at McDonald's in Xining, and was accosted by a horseman in the Philippines, and was touched by the warmth of the Filipino people. ......
When I came back from Gap month, nothing had changed, I got a new business and started working again;
but everything had changed, I, for one, was not the same person.
After Fu Zhen came back from her Gap Month, she settled in Qingdao and then moved to Beijing, where she is now living happily with her husband and daughter, Little Sweater. The two books have been published and I really like them, "The Best of the Best" and "The Best of the Best", which are about what you see and hear during the gap year.
Recently, there is also a couple called Da Meow and Er Miao, who call themselves IT workers, and have been traveling around the world since 2015 with their own sewn wedding dresses, quitting their jobs. From 2015 2017, 800 days 7 continents 150,000 kilometers of global travel, spent 730,000 yuan. Of course, they are not a rich second generation, after returning to China in June 2017 the two returned to their line of work, began to work overtime, business trips, the life of the bitter IT workers.
There are also some around me who went on a gap year. The first time I went to New Zealand for a year working holiday, Kimi, if there is no money, she went to the local restaurant to work to save some money, and then saved enough to go backpacking, she was working in a hotel on a small island in New Zealand, that is a vacation island, there is no cell phone signal, and the means of communication with the outside world is to go online, and she can be on the Internet for half an hour a day in the hotel. She said life there was like Robinson Crusoe on a desert island, but I could tell she was happy.
And Mika, who takes advantage of the gap month between her vacation and her job change every year, has traveled to more than a dozen countries.
Since many people still come back to look for jobs and work again after a gap year, after spending so much money and time, can it change anything? Is it worth it?
It's true that if you want to escape work and escape life, a gap year or a gap month won't help you solve any problems, or chances are you'll be even more confused after the trip.
But it is worth it, because it will let you go to an unfamiliar place to reacquaint yourself with that familiar place. After you return, the real life, work has not changed, but the way you look at him has changed, you have changed yourself.
It looks the same, but everything is different.
Gap year, seems to be very far away, seems to be an unattainable dream, and not everyone likes up to 1~2 years of gap year, then you can try gap month. Maybe you will say I have no money, I have no vacation, I can't quit naked.
It has been said that the factors needed to travel are: spirit of challenge 25% + courage 25% + leisure 20% + desire 15% + financial ability 15%.
It's not that hard if you want it, I know that, and of course you know that.