Summary
What factors influence the determination of the departure date?
Even though I already have a target date in mind, I haven’t written about this important issue until now. I have made a short list of the factors I took into account when determining the departure date.
Existing work commitments
I am an IT team leader in a manufacturing company in Hungary. We knew months before my decision was made that we would have a few months of project work in 2025 regarding NIS2 compliance. This work should be completed around April, May at the latest. In order to meet this commitment, I would have to stay at my job at least until the end of May.
Preparation time
Based on what I have read so far, I accept that the responsible preparation time is at least six months for a plan of this size. Considering that I started planning in late November, early December, this also determines that it is not advisable for me to leave before the end of May, June.
Vacation planning
For years, I’ve been going on vacation with my daughters as a trio. In recent years, we’ve been going abroad more often in the summer. We’ve been to Croatia, Paris twice, London, Athens, and Berlin. We can plan a vacation with them in Turkey or Spain in early August 2025, so leaving before August doesn’t seem very feasible.
A wedding
Based on all of this, the very first target date was 01-09-2025. When I was one of the first to tell this to a friend of mine, he replied: “Don’t go anywhere in early September, you’ll be busy.” He and his girlfriend plan to have their wedding on10-09-2025 as a couple, with only two witnesses. I will be one of the witnesses. They don’t know where the ceremony will be yet, but somewhere like Dominica or Cuba. Whether or not I will come home from the venue of this wedding is up to me.
Based on all of these factors, the target date is
20-09-2025 08:00
Along with writing this post, I also set up the WpDevArt Countdown widget in the sidebar on the blog and started the countdown with the above date.
At the moment the counter is as follows:
Change 1.
My friend called me this week about the wedding. It will be sometime around December instead of the planned September. So I immediately changed the departure date from 20.09.2025 to 25.08.2025, a Monday that promises to be a pleasant one.
This reduced the countdown by twenty-six days.