That since I was pregnant it was time to let my career go.
My career is critical to my family’s ability to live a middle class life (and it’s critical to my sanity and happiness, but the person who gave me this “advice“ wasn’t really one for acknowledging or valuing mental health).
Did I write this? Especially the part about needing to emotionally prepare for a phone call and needing a script. I can’t deal with phone calls… sorry, find some other way to reach me.
I personally hate having to “allocate bandwidth” to the event ahead of time. Like, I have to clear out all the other stressful things in my life so that this stupid appointment can have my full bandwidth for dealing with its bs. The worst is when the appointment or whatever it is exceeds the amount of bandwidth I allocated to it - like if they want me to come back or follow-up in some way it’s probably just not going to happen because I just do not have the energy resources and capacity for the stress it causes.
About 11k hours of EverQuest, 1999-2005. (I still consider it the best time of my life, too.)