The career break café concept is simple:
More people having amazing career breaks = happier people = happier world

More people taking structured career breaks means more people getting out there spending their time doing something positive with their lives, and in many cases making a difference to other people’s lives simultaneously. It also means happier people, returning to work reinvigorated, better educated and with a healthier lifestyle.

The career break café has been created to try and encourage more people to take structured time out both to benefit themselves and the world around them.

Guiding Voice
The Career Break Café is a much needed independent voice for career breakers. Its focus is on giving advice and ideas to career breakers whatever their interest or situation in life. Careerbreakcafe.com focuses on three key areas:

1. BEFORE: In the important decision making process leading up to a career break

2. DURING: With contact and advice whilst on a career break

3. AFTER: With support and guidance when returning from a career break

It also considers the fact that career breakers are people of vast age difference, background and stages in their lives. We have therefore also developed different broad categories within the careerbreak community:

ICE breakers (Independent Career Escapees)

FREE breakers (Families Realising Experience is Everything)

GOLD breakers (Guarders Of Lifelong Dreams)

From coffee breaks to career breaks
The career break café format is a laid-back magazine style website community. It’s a place for people to take time out from the working day to get ideas, info, and guidance on all things related to the big break. The site has an A-Z of things to do, places to go and how to do it. So whatever people’s needs, aspirations, problems the careerbreakcafe.com has the answer.

Why café?
Well because everyone needs to take time out from their day to refresh themselves, this usually involves a cuppa and if you’re lucky a coffee with your pal in the local café. The career break café is about taking time out on the grander scale – it’s a massive cup of coffee (vente grandos) and its got enough caffine in to make your want to take some serious time out…

Whose making the coffee?
The Career Break Café team

Out Front
Ben Keene has spent much of the last 5 years running around the world leading gap year and career break expeditions for development travel organisation Madventurer.

Having being made a tribal elder by Mad chief John Lawler, Ben decided that it was time for a break himself… the result is the Career Break Café.

Ben’s preferred break is English tea and a bacon sandwhich followed by a trek up any nearby mountain. Besides this Ben is interested in international development, England beating Australia at any sport, outdoor living, and taking time out whenever he can.

Designer Dragons
Behind the scenes the Komodo Design team are the virtual architects of careerbreakcafe.com, always building and adding new features to the site with stories about career breakers.

Around the world
Career Break Café’s content comes from a large number of writers and career breakers from around the world. This gives it a great sense of diversity as well as independence that make it a trusted place to visit for the career breaker.

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