WSJ.com - A Good Vacation Can Serve As an Inspiration for Change: "She ended up co-founding a career- and life-coaching firm called Crystal-Barkley Corp. Nearly 25 years later, she's still president.
She has encountered a number of executives who have come back from vacations depressed. The solution doesn't require a reckless change, like quitting your job immediately, she says. Sometimes you just need to modify your career path rather than abandon it entirely. She recalls a successful New York ophthalmologist who took a trip to central Asia. It was part vacation, part volunteer work with people needing treatment for eye diseases. He came back convinced he needed to do more with his life. 'He said: 'Just making money is not enough for me,' ' Ms. Barkley recalls.
Rather than leaving his practice, he continued to work part time as an ophthalmologist. But he also helped found a company that manufactures low-cost eyeglasses for people in developing countries. 'He managed to keep his activities in his profession, but reorganized his activities in such a way that he really was fulfilling what meant the most to him,' Ms. Barkley says."
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