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[quote=Anonymous]I majored in chemical engineering. I thought I would go to law school and be a patent lawyer. I was on a plane to Boston to visit my college boyfriend at his co-op job over spring break and I was studying. The man who sat next to me recognized the textbook and talked to me. He was a chemical engineer undergrad and currently working as a patent lawyer. He was in his late 30s and the one sentence I remember to this day was “the money almost makes it worth it, some days.” I did not go to law school. I did sell my soul for money and work a bajillion hours and fly every week to my consulting clients for a decade, but once I was ready to settle down I was able to step back into a career with better work-life balance.

My friend’s husband runs ultra marathons and trail races like the Western States 100. I asked him why he runs these crazy races and he said “no matter what each day brings, I know I am capable of doing hard things.” I will never run an ultra and probably won’t even run a marathon, but I laced up my running shoes for the first time in over 10 years in 2020 and I have run 3-4 days a week ever since. I love running and it’s my happy place. In the darkest early days of the pandemic it was the one thing that kept my sanity.  [/quote]

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