Please explain a gap in employment of greater than 30 days

For cryin' out loud, it's like it's illegal to be willfully unemployed.  I first this noticed this when I saw that LinkedIn degraded my profile strength from "All-Star" to "Expert (which I've read is a 20% hit, but I haven't finished analyzing) when I removed my Badbatical "job".  Then, while applying for a job with  a XXX - Lg corporation, there was a required Fill-In-the_Blank request to explain any employment gap GREATER THAN 30 DAYS.  Heck, I've taken vacations longer than that.  Those two companies have freaked me out with their hairy eyeballs.

And yet, I'm still laughing.  While this might not have been the smartest thing I've ever done, I won't know that answer until The End because I have no idea how this is going to turn out.  I just know I have money saved and that  I wanted that not knowing, the adventure, the sheer audacity of jumping off.  This is the worst part, I don't think there's a means in the employment forms to recognize the positive aspects of what might be a healthy period of unemployment.  Give me some educational kudos, ask me how my volunteerism is going, have me list how many poems I've written or the progress I've made on my latest chapbook.

While it is a PIA to update the resume, work out the details of cover letters, work on the LinkedIn profiles, spend the hours submitting for jobs, we "corporate" workers forget that there's a whole world of people out there who are used to auditioning all the time.  Think about actors, dancers, and painters, then there's the seasonal workers - there's plenty of people whose lives rotate around joblessness and it's not unnatural.  It's like engineers, project managers, techs, etc., are supposed to work until layoffs / firing / or injury.  What is up with that?

I think we begin to internalize the perception of "damaged goods," despite the fact that our industry, telecomm, is notorious for layoffs.  Willfully unemployed is like a dream.  I've only known one other person who did this and she went to pottery school for a year and did other things for the following.  Too much fun.  Hell yes, I was worried for her, but she bounced back in when she was ready to "return" to work, or needed a job with a good payday.

Me, I figure it'll take time for the match to come.  So, I'm also opening my nets to look at jobs with Ride The Duck  through Indeed.com and I can't figure out how to retract it.  Maybe playing around isn't such a good thing.
the word "poetry" in them, "writing," "editor," and "stylist."  I typed in "call girl" and came up with dishwasher & Doll hair stylist jobs.  BORING.  "Dungeon master" at least brought up some jobs with Hasbro for role playing games.  I accidentally submitted my resume to

The idea that it will take time to find a match doesn't bother me either.  I really hope my dream job doesn't appear too early because summer is right around the bend.  I haven't been able to go swimming out in the lakes or hang out at the parks in yonks.  Still, I hated that my LinkedIn status just "ended" in December 2014 and my "Badbatical" "new job" joke just wasn't "got" by anyone.  Like no one.  Like the joke was so on me.  My career counselor buddy came back from vacation and made me take it off, immediately take it off.  Hopefully she likes the new version.  I followed the recommendation from Maggie Graham's response in the blog post.