If You Had 12 Months of Paid Free Time, What Would You Do?
News keeps coming about deferred start dates for incoming associate classes and offers from some firms to take a year off, with pay, to do something in the nonprofit world or to just take a break.
And Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has a no-strings-attached offer out to its associates guaranteeing that their jobs will be waiting for them if they opt to take a paid one-year sabbatical, according to the New York Times.
Besides making us envious, this made us wonder about how you’d react to such an offer.
So tell us …
If you had a year of paid time off and could do anything you wanted, what would you do? Where would you go? Or, if you’re one of those who have accepted this chance, share your plans.
Read last week’s responses to this challenge: “Choose Your Grammar Battle, and Take a Side”
Featured answer:
Posted by DRF: “My concern is perhaps more a usage issue than a grammar issue, and it focuses on legal writing. After 20 years, it still astounds me how many lawyers (and judges) capitalize words that would never be capitalized in other writing contexts. I suspect it’s the result of confusion arising from the fact that, in legal writing, we sometimes create defined terms such that ordinary nouns are later capitalized when they would not ordinarily otherwise be capitalized. Thus, there are lawyers and judges who simply presume that words such as ‘complaint,’ ‘order’ and ‘motion’ should always be capitalized regardless of whether they are defined terms. It demonstrates poor writing, and it’s horribly distracting. This Capitalist nonsense must end.”
