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Marketer calls dog-walking break professionally valuable
· New York time
Sally Simmons left her marketing job to walk dogs for four months and calls the experience one of the most valuable of her professional life. She rejects the assumption that the period was simply a gap or detour. Her account offers a personal assessment of work outside a conventional career track, rather than a universal prescription for changing jobs. The significance lies in what she says she gained and in challenging the assumption that only office work counts as professional experience. The résumé has a limited vocabulary for this sort of development. It prefers leadership initiatives to the possibility that useful lessons arrived on a leash. At least these clients make their enthusiasm for going outside reasonably clear.
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