I had a no-employment gap in my resume where I went to Central America to take psychedelics and meditate with native shamans for about a year, then traveled and hitchhiked around for another year. Worth putting on resume or will they think I'm batshit crazy? Aren't the Silicon Valley guys all taking acid nowadays ?
Def leave out
leave the travel/exploration in, and the drugs out. the travel shows you're motivated, capable and resourceful and provided a great and easy conversation piece. drug stories are boring.
Say you were volunteering and traveling. Make up some bullshit about little kids you helped. I did the same (though more traveling and only a little aya) and everyone found it interesting. And no, don't tell them about the shamans and aya. Most of Silicon Valley do not touch drugs, the burners are just a vocal minority.
Now that's what I call unethical! 👌
Don't bring up the drugs or shamans, but traveling and meditation are fine. I have no problem with drugs, but as a hiring manager I would question your judgement for bringing up a controversial topic in a professional context.
Agreed. You need to account for the time to keep the hiring manager from speculating on what you did for a year (e.g., prison, laziness, etc). About the aya.. even if you did happen to get a manager who's cool with it, there may be a few people involved in the decision. Most people def do not understand. However, independent travel abroad can be seen as character-building experience.
go into depth about how you became lizard king and watched your mom eat your father then participated in the death of consciousness and its rebuilding but definitely leave out everything about travelling, shamans, or taking drugs
Call it a "Sabbatical" in Africa. Offer no details and they won't ask because of the religious context.
Dear God you are the worst kind of person. Ugh. Shamans? Do tell, did you "find yourself", experience "deep healing", or maybe find some bs deeper meaning or purpose? Srsly, never tell anyone about that. It's embarrassing and screams "bored, privileged, and desperate for spirituality because of insecurity and being sheltered." Shamans? Fuck off. Drugs? Cool, whatever man, if that's what it takes. Just keep it to yourself. It makes you seem weak, impressionable, and prone to mystical delusions. Just tell them you took time off to reflect on your priorities and that you traveled to expand your understanding of people and the world in general.
man you are sour today... that's a high amount of vitriol in one post. perhaps you wish you had the ability to let go and travel as well.
I think you might want to leave out the ayahuasca experience and let people in the know "read between the lines". Say that you spent two years in C.A. for personal exploration. I spent a year there (Costa Rica). I found that many interviewers loved talking to me about it during interviews.