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TUESDAY, 26 FEBRUARY 1991
You quit your job to "find yourself".
Found you. You're on your parents' sofa, and the Wi-Fi password has been changed.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You negotiated your broadband bill down by $3 a month. The call took 94…
- Loud budgeting is telling everyone you can't afford brunch. Quiet budgeting is going anyway,…
- You bought 41 games in the Steam sale. You will play two. The other…
- The customer is always right. The customer is also on hold, forever, which is…
- Your squad misses you, says the notification. Your squad is four strangers and a…
- It's not a career ladder. It's a hamster wheel. The hamster has a LinkedIn…
- You have a "5-year plan". It's a Pinterest board. It's mostly kitchens.
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