Anyone left their job (Toxicity) & took few months off (sabbatical) with limited income: a) was it hard to find a new job after few months out of the market? B) did you change career? :2: What advice do you have on how to take advantage of Those days without a job

I’m leaving my job because it’s too much toxicity to the point where I’m having anxiety attacks. For your reference I’m a litigation/ trial attorney for 5 years and I’ve never felt anxious even in court. But this is too much.

First I stayed to try to find a new job, but because I’m working in a a very specific area of law “niche”, my application were not retained for jobs posting that are not related to my expertise and , there are no job positions right now in my expertise.

Now, I can’t stay any longer , so I’m quitting on Monday. It means that I will have no income and will be leaving on my savings until I find something. It could take few months. I’m afraid I will be out of money as I have many responsibilities (no partner of kids are involved tho)

How did you go through this? I’m kind of happy to finally have some time off to concentrate on other things but I’m in fear that I will not find a job after few months.

Opening my own practice for now is not something that I’m interested to do but, I will do freelancing in the meantime.

Thank you.