[pct-l] Obtaining a leave of absence

[jennifer]

I didn't list my experience on my resume, but when I got back last fall and was looking for a job everyone asked me why I was without work for 6 months....I told them and got a few job offer based on me hiking for 6 months! My current boss didn't really interview me, when she found out I was hiking the PCT she said alright your hired! And that was that. No actual interview required! Worked out a lot better than I thought it would. I though employers would see having no qualms about quitting your job for months of adventure a bad thing :)

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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 11:35:50 -0800
From: "Tom Weir" <tom_d_w at hughes.net>
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Obtaining a leave of absence
To: "'trail-name-soon'" <trail-name-soon at comcast.net>
Cc: pct-l at backcountry.net
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Trail-name-soon writes;

"Your boss should realize that you the company will be re-gaining a
physically fit employee who has a recent PhD in Self Motivation, Logistics,
Materiel Handling, Budget & Finance, Human Relations, Natural History, and
Land Navigation (at least)."

That is an interesting way of looking at it.  Has anyone ever listed their
thru-hiking accomplishments on their resume?  If so, what were the results?

Tom W