This American took a 13-month vacation with his family in Taiwan

When -dowed to take a Saturday from your career and travel the world?

Jason Lee and his wife Katie did so when in July 2024 they moved a son from Columbus, Ohio, Taipei, Taiwan.

Jason and Katie, both 34, came up with this idea after they brought Forest, who is now 6 to visit their grandparents in Taiwan when he was a baby.

They spent eight weeks together, and Jason took a parental vacation and saw how much his parents were to contact his grandson.

Jason says CNBC to make it so that during the tear farewell at the airport at the end of the trip “I just thought about myself if I could do something if we could give (my parents) a long amount of time they could spend with this child what a special moment would be.”

At first he viewed Searching the way To move his career to Taiwan until he understood that he didn’t want to fight his Required work culture.

So the couple decided to save on A valid career break So they could spend time with the Taiwan family without working.

The couple spent the next five years, saving on Saturday.

They timed this so that Forest would be in Taiwan for their kindergarten, and decided to spend 13 months abroad to fit training, as well as summer breaks to return it to the state for the first class.

Jason and Katie collected numbers and Set the target to save 60,000 dollars for moving.

Jason says he looked through the goal, like any household, to save for a home repair project, and they used you the necessary budget application to track their savings.

They created themselves to make their public expenses minimal while they were in Taiwan. Both of their cars pay off, and the mortgage at the starting house they bought in 2016 is $ 1,200 a month. Jason says a friend shoots the house out of them to cover his mortgage and renting one of the cars while they remain.

As for their stay, they rented the apartment and spent months preparing the documents. Jason used his Taiwan passport (he was born there and moved to the United States when he was 9), Forrest received his own passport on Taiwan, and Katie received her husband and husband.

By the summer of 2024, Jason quitted on sales, and Katie left her work in a non -profit organization.

Jason says the terms were important: not only he wanted to make sure that Forrest had enough time with his grandparents and adapt to kindergarten, but the jump was also decisive for himself, Katie and grandparents.

“This is not what can afford to wait,” Jason says. “If I do not do it now, I will lose my 30s forever. And when I rewind myself again?

Moreover, he wanted to make sure that forrest managed to interact with his grandparents while they are still in good health and mobile.

Overall, Jason says, “when I look back this year, and I think of all the trips we were able to make, and all the memories we were able to do is absolutely worth it.”

In addition, to spend a better time with the family, Jason set for himself some personal and professional goals for his Saturday.

He says Universal Health System.

With greater mental clarity, Jason says he drew attention to what he wants for his career. Before the break, he says he made a lot of pressure on himself to have a high -performance year of sales; If it didn’t come out, it took on the feeling of feeling itself.

“Over the last 10 years, I have been dictating my career in the next steps that do not rely on what I want, but based on the fact that the world or LinkedIn tells me I want,” says Jason.

He realized that he was feeling the pressure to continue to climb the corporate ladder to earn higher titles and more money. “I just understood how much I had set me up for dissatisfaction if I do not prefer and what I want.”

Until March, he sat down with Katie with great awareness that as they returned to the US, they were okay, without pursuing the same wages that had previously had.

“I realized that our family did not need to do so much and more than what we did before to be happy,” Jason says. “We are so happy now that the happiest we were family and we live in our lives less than ours.”

The fox has big plans to return to the States.

“The plan always had to go back in August, but we became pregnant,” Jason says.

Spouses discussed their second child during Saturday, given Taiwan High quality of native and post-natal care For families.

In early July, Katie gave birth to Ruby’s daughter, so a four -year family will return to the States in October when she has a passport and is able to travel.

Jason and Katie say their first career priority is to ensure that one of them provided work in the US as soon as possible to make sure their family has health insurance. Jason says he will consider making a lower payment that provides great flexibility, such as a company that facilitates work in Taiwan.

Meanwhile, Katie held her Saturday business plans for two ideas to run while Trading Business -Business and a performance for children and their parents or caregivers, and hopes to continue creating these ideas in the US

As for their journey so far, “it was so transformed into the family,” he says.

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