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I was an MIT educated neurosurgeon. Now I'm unemployed and alone in the mountains. How did I get here? - ~health.mental - Tildes

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I personally know a few dear friends who, for various reasons, have all dropped out of the "normal" "professional work" life that we spent nearly 20 years getting into. I think perhaps a common thread is that the work became a source of suffering. Perhaps seeing your work contribute to late stage capitalistic greed and enshittification was a moral injury. Perhaps working the oil/gas/petroleum/plastics industry. Perhaps being viewed as a cog to be taken max advantages of, to have your "Protestant work ethic" be taken advantaged of to the degree your only choices are to "compromise your true self and leave the job half done", or else watch your body break down to getting the job nearly done, knowing they'll push harder until it does break. Perhaps it's having to attend yet another corporate "we care" manifesto presentation yet again while full well knowing they don't care about these values like human rights or equality or work life balance or whatever. Yeah, maybe "we can't hack it". Bu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25LUF8GmbFU Link information This data is scraped automatically and may be incorrect. Authors Goobie and Doobie Duration 48:22 Published Jul 9 2024 I personally know a few dear friends who, for various reasons, have all dropped out of the "normal" "professional work" life that we spent nearly 20 years getting into. I think perhaps a common thread is that the work became a source of suffering. Perhaps seeing your work contribute to late stage capitalistic greed and enshittification was a moral injury. Perhaps working the oil/gas/petroleum/plastics industry. Perha

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