Seems to me that five years is a long time.  I could work on a degree for the first four.  Or I could work on retraining myself for the first two.  Or I could just take the first six months off.<p>Five years is a long enough time to let you do whatever you&#x27;re going to decide to do with the first part, and then work on recovering employability&#x2F;resume credibility&#x2F;whatever with the last part.  An interesting question would be how peoples&#x27; behavior changes through the five years, though...