I am drowning in a job everyone thinks is my dream job
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This community is lucky to have someone willing to be this honest. You make it safer for the rest of us to be real too.
I do not have advice, just solidarity. Sometimes being witnessed is the whole medicine. I see you and I am glad you are still here.
I have lived a version of this. The guilt is loud now, but the self-respect outlasts it. Give it a little time and you will see.
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