We discuss our experiences with unofficial industry sabbaticals, aka taking time between jobs for our own projects. Topics: * Funemployment versus sabbatical * Robert's 2021 sabbatical building sandbox.bio learning platform and 42basepairs genomics cloud platform * Maria's 2017 OMGenomics entrepreneurship experience, building Circa visualization software and a YouTube channel * Sabbatical projects helping you get the next job * Satisfaction and meaning from personal projects Links: * Ask us a question!: omgenomics.com/podcast * 42basepairs.com (Robert's genomics cloud platform) * sandbox.bio (Robert's bioinformatics learning platform) * omgenomics.com/circa (Maria's visualization tool) * null (Maria's YouTube channel) * OMGenomics Q&A episode featuring Robert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SfDHheyKBU