My situation:

• 32 years old
• Modest salary as a software dev ($45k)
• $50k in savings
• Just under 6 years experience as a developer

I never did the whole 'travel the world' thing when I was younger. I would like to take a few years out now to do so. I have found some countries I would like to stay in, most with living expenses (comfortably) at $1,000 a month or less.

That would last me a little over 4 years, so I'm thinking of doing it for 3 years, and then having the leftover $10k or so as a safety net whilst I get back into working.

My question is... would anyone want to employ me at that point? I have almost 6 years experience as a developer right now, almost 2 years of that as 'full stack', with a fairly diverse skill set. I feel I can (and have) easily obtain a position right now, and don't want to jeopardise that.

I would intend on continuing with development when I'm away, by contributing to open source projects, working on my own apps, etc. But it would not be full time, maybe for 10 - 20 hours a week. I also do development work on a voluntary basis for a charity, so would continue with that.