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Your Life Needs a Press Release - by Harnidh Kaur

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I probably do more research than anyone really needs. As much as it’s a compulsion, I’d also like to be paid for it. You can support my writing by buying me a coffee here. TL;DR: Scroll down for actionables :) Share Career (and life, but I’m sticking to career because we’re not trying to get existential here) drift is narrative dissonance. It’s the experience of waking up and realizing your internal story no longer matches your external reality. The job you took to pay rent becomes the job that defines you. The skill you mastered becomes the box you can’t escape. Drift doesn’t feel like failure while it’s happening. It feels like maturity. You tell yourself you’re being pragmatic, strategic even. “I’ll do this for two more years, build credibility, then make my move.” But two years becomes four. Four becomes seven. And one day you’re in a meeting nodding along to a strategy you don’t believe in, and you catch your reflection in your laptop screen, and the person staring back is a stran

I probably do more research than anyone really needs. As much as it’s a compulsion, I’d also like to be paid for it. You can support my writing by buying me a coffee here. TL;DR: Scroll down for actionables :) Share Career (and life, but I’m sticking to career because we’re not trying to get existential here) drift is narrative dissonance. It’s the experience of waking up and realizing your internal story no longer matches your external reality. The job you took to pay rent becomes the job that defines you. The skill you mastered becomes the box you can’t escape. Drift doesn’t feel like…

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