It would have been better if you wouldn't have taken a year out in the first place.
Suppose you haven't found your USB, what would you have done?
Although her friends tried to persuade her to apply for the job at a local factory, but Christine refused to make an application.
If Mariana had been able to complete her thesis instead of returning to work, she would have graduated a year ago.
A year out provided him with so extensive experience that his university was very impressed.