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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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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Wll, you put too much of your identity into work with is an empty endeavor.  I'm such an underachiver and couldn't be happier with my mediocre professionally life and my extremely happy social and family life.

Work has always been a means to live, not the other way sround. Stop chasing things that don't matter. [/quote]

This is what I see too.

I guess I never gave enough fucks to throw my life into my work. On Sundays I've always looked forward to Fridays. I've never thought it OK or good to stay at the office past 5. No way. I start staring at the clock at 230 wondering when I can haul ass out of work so I can live my real life.

I don't need or want a trophy for clocking long hours. I'm there for a paycheck so I can do the things in life I want.

Mediocrity never felt so good.

Work is hollow. It's a means to an end.[/quote]

Look at the obituaries in the Washington Post sometime.
You will see people who worked/served the government for 30+ 40+ years and in the end nobody remembers or gives a rats ass.
Sad but true.[/quote]

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