Sabbatical to update skills

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I am thinking of taking a sabbatical in between jobs to refresh my skills and not worry about work for a while, I intend to learn a couple of new languages and frameworks and am looking for suggestions.

I find that I am too tired when I get home from work and cant concentrate on anything new hence this decision. I intend to live off my savings during this break and maybe a couple of freelance on the side projects.

I am currently a full stack PHP web developer and linux admin. but want to move to something else, Java (other JVM languages uncluded) seems very appealing to me at the moment. There seems to be lots of resources to learn from and like the open source culture that is there in the community. Any advice?
 
From a popularity point of view, I guess Java and C# are both two good languages that one can use to build a successful career with.

Congrats on the savings that'll last you for this period. Should you really be using your savings?
 
what else would he use?

i think taking a sabbatical to update skills is a good thing. I guess you could always find out if your play of employment will provide you with some extended or even unpaid study leave. Alot of companies are willing to offer a sabbatical if it means not losing the resource, so perhaps give that some consideration.
 
All I'm thinking is that using Savings to recap is not what I would do, but if you can afford it, go for it.
 
Very interesting, all the best, hope you'll benefit the most from it.:)
 
Python is AWESOME, specially for the web... look at Django framework.

But simply looking at popularity I suggested Java and C#
 
Python is good, I have written a few scripts with it and am pretty comfortable with it. I am looking for a more enterpisey platform so to speak haha
 
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