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I just stopped going to my job one day and I don’t fully understand why

Hello everyone,

I (29M) studied aerospace engineering, my last job was at a major airline, and before that I worked at a few other large companies. By any reasonable measure, things have gone well. Stable jobs, respectable positions, no obvious failures.

But I’ve walked away more than once. Not because something blew up there was no conflict, no breakdown, no story I can point to. Just a quiet internal disconnection, and then I’m gone.

What I keep noticing is that the bigger and more “prestig

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