This is kind-of sort-of a-little-bit what unintentionally happened with my unscheduled exit from the birdhouse. Certainly the "hanging out in an art studio making stuff" aspect came about because I was no longer fully employed, and while i have done a sprinkle of freelancing in the past 18 months, it has not been enough to either fully qualify as a replacement for my previous lifestyle, or enough to prevent me having plenty of downtime. Yesterday I had a conversation with a prospective future full-time employer where the question about what I've been up to was raised, but it didn't seem (!) to be in a particularly problematic way. My problem is, if you take a year off, you'll basically do lots and lots of other things very very well, and make me look bad. So, don't do that. 😛