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Went home for a year and I am scared it ended my career

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Danny Reyes

13 Apr 2026

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Family reasons, not a choice. Coming back now and everyone I knew has moved on.

4 replies

  1. Miles Petrakis

    13 Apr 2026

    A year is nothing. Genuinely. People take years off constantly and nobody is keeping a register.

  2. Reeva Bhandari

    13 Apr 2026

    Your contacts are still your contacts. Send four emails saying you are back. That is the whole re-entry.

  3. Robert Nakashima

    14 Apr 2026

    Do not explain or apologize for the gap. "I was away, I am back, here is my new reel" is a complete sentence.

  4. Marguerite Sowande

    14 Apr 2026

    I took three years off. It was fine. The industry has an extremely short memory in both directions.

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