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[quote=Anonymous]OP here – you all have hit the nail on the head on a few things.  I really never thought that adults thought about high school – except the few who talk about the glory days of being football quarterback or something.

I definitely followed a straight path – high school to college, grad school, consulting.  It wasn’t ever easy, but it was just one of those – keep working hard and move on to the next stage – types of things.  And then it fell apart on me, and I realized I have no one – didn’t have much of a professional network that wanted to help despite the fact that I killed myself for them for a decade, don’t have many friends, and my family doesn’t understand.  Ended up unemployed for a long stretch and then had to take the first offer I got – DC in the gov’t.  Sorry to insult those who’ve spent a lifetime in the gov’t, but it isn’t for me – I miss the client interaction, running the show, and even billing time.  Yet there isn’t any way for me to get back there – I had no luck getting hired at a competitor firm as they have their own partner track folks to deal with.
I thought a geographic change would help – as I was living in an east coast city that I really really disliked; so when an offer came along in DC, I took it . . . .

And yes, I do think I am depressed, and yet I’m really averse to the idea of going on any meds.  And what is a therapist going to say that you all haven’t – get out there, make friends, everyone feels like this sometimes??

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