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SATURDAY, 14 NOVEMBER 1970
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Three are jobs you'll never apply for, one's a recipe you'll never cook, and one is playing music from somewhere you can't find.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You quit your job to "find yourself". Found you. You're on your parents' sofa,…
- Clear-coding means stating your intentions up front. Hers was "I have a hard stop…
- You don't have a type. You have a pattern. Your friends have a group…
- Work smarter, not harder. You've chosen neither, and HR has a folder.
- In three generations, nobody will remember your name. You don't know your great-grandmother's, so…
- You say you're "an old soul". You're 21. The only old thing about you…
- The weekend is two days long. Monday is nine emotional days long, and you're…
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