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new and tired

New here, mid-career, trying to quietly plan my next move without blowing up the job I’ve got now.

Work stress has been landing right in my shoulders and neck lately. Sleep’s rough too – up around 4am most nights, replaying meetings I don’t even care about.

Got two cats keeping me company through it, plus a book on the nightstand I keep meaning to open.

Good to be here.

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  • FreshFaceJourney10.01 06:19

    3am club too, it’s rough out here

  • dewdrop10.01 06:32

    stress always hits my scalp first, had a 2 week stretch of the same 4am wakeups last year

  • Kindly Curious10.01 07:49

    the shoulder and neck tension is so real, mine locked up for weeks before I connected it to work at all. glad you have the cats around

  • Good Enough Skin10.01 10:55

    early wakeups – new to the job or longstanding? 🙂

  • FreshFaceJourney10.01 22:11

    I don’t think it’s the meetings – mine was the search stress itself. Same for you?

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