Taisir Anbar | Mercer Management Consulting | Spain | Santiago
Take A Long Walk
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American Way StaffWHO Taisir Anbar, 24, consultant, Mercer Management Consulting, Washington, D.C.
ENOUGH ALREADY Constantly traveling and working up to 130 hours a week took its toll on Taisir Anbar. “You start to wonder, when you put off þying home to hang out with friends because you’d only be home for one night anyway.” Basically, his monthly rent paid for some really nice storage space.
RED FLAG “I reached the point where I wasn’t as willing to make the kind of sacriÞces that I had initially accepted. I also became more intent on checking off goals on my lifetime to-do list.”
COPING MECHANISM Anbar decided to take some R&R through his company’s sabbatical program, which allows consultants to take one or two months off per year — in addition to vacation time. During his first month off, he hiked in
Spain along the Camino de
Santiago, a 500-mile pilgrimage route. He spent his second month in the
United Arab Emirates. For Anbar, the sabbatical was a smart way to detox. “Time somehow shifts when you have the freedom to take an afternoon nap in an olive grove,” he says. “You begin to measure time by experiences rather than by deadlines.”
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