The three participants reported both positive and negative feelings about their gap
year experience. The positive feelings relate to their increased life experience and
personal growth (e.g. ‘... [the gap year] helped me realise what I wanted because I
didn’t know what I wanted, I was young, I was just out of school, I just chose the first
thing that came long, I didn’t realise that that’s gonna be for the rest of my life. So
ja, I did grow a lot personally inside’; ‘I loved the people I met, the friends I made,
I loved going to the places that I went to and seeing many things ...’). The negative
feelings relate to specific experiences dealt with during the gap year, such as stressrelated
to work and financial concerns (e.g. ‘I would go see more, maybe spend a bit
more of that money while I was there. And I would have, I think as much as I came
out of my shell, I think I would have came out of it more, been a bit more confident
and a bit more outgoing than I was’; ‘what happens when you go into a job whereyou are in over your head, you just get more stressed than anything and that’s just
a symbol of my working environment that I was in’; ‘It was very difficult, running
out of money and having to eat two-minute noodles all the time because they were
cheap’). However, despite having negative feelings about certain aspects of their gap
year, on the whole, none of the participants regret having chosen that experience
The three participants reported both positive and negative feelings about their gapyear experience. The positive feelings relate to their increased life experience andpersonal growth (e.g. ‘... [the gap year] helped me realise what I wanted because Ididn’t know what I wanted, I was young, I was just out of school, I just chose the firstthing that came long, I didn’t realise that that’s gonna be for the rest of my life. Soja, I did grow a lot personally inside’; ‘I loved the people I met, the friends I made,I loved going to the places that I went to and seeing many things ...’). The negativefeelings relate to specific experiences dealt with during the gap year, such as stressrelatedto work and financial concerns (e.g. ‘I would go see more, maybe spend a bitmore of that money while I was there. And I would have, I think as much as I cameout of my shell, I think I would have came out of it more, been a bit more confidentand a bit more outgoing than I was’; ‘what happens when you go into a job whereyou are in over your head, you just get more stressed than anything and that’s justa symbol of my working environment that I was in’; ‘It was very difficult, runningout of money and having to eat two-minute noodles all the time because they werecheap’). However, despite having negative feelings about certain aspects of their gapyear, on the whole, none of the participants regret having chosen that experience
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