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The option to quit and only work either every other year or every 6 months is more viable. Though still job/industry specific, many people pull this off.

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Yeah, because a resume with that work history is going to go over so well?

Seasonal jobs or contracting work etc can cover up such things.

You can always be eccentric, go off script and life hack Keynes' predictions into existence. However, people mostly don't and economics is about what people do.

I think that’s overly dismissive as many people do work like this.

It’s up to the individual if doing animation work in 6 month bursts for individual movies is enough or if they want near full time employment. 6 month rotations are common in many tiny industries like super yacht crews. Major industries like education, farming, construction, and tourism are quite seasonal and it’s up to individuals if they take that time off or work an off season job.

For those industries you listed the same would have been true in the 1930s when the prediction was made so I don’t think Keynes was referring to those. In all likelihood he was talking about manufacturing and professional jobs. The divergence seems to be that the blue collar workers were fired and/or their jobs offshored while not much has changed for the white collar workers except for the digitization of paperwork and the elimination of support roles with accompanying responsibilities now transferred to the professional. I think we screwed the pooch on this one and we should own up to it.

I hear this a lot but is it really a thing? It’s so normal to have gap years now and I feel the vast majority of employers would be understanding. I certainly wouldn’t find it strange that an applicant had gaps in their CV.

Or work 7 years and then retire. https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/

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