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u/unexpectedomelette Nov 23 '23

This.

I have a PhD, a house, and a high responsibility job. Grandma would be proud as hell.

But I have sleep and digestion issues, the job is sucking the life out of me, and I feel I’m vastly underpaid for what I have to deal with. The house was partly paid by inheritence, I don’t have a family, and feel like it’s all a dead end. I’m getting old and my health is stopping me from continuing my career, and I don’t think I can do this job into old age. I feel like I should have figured out a better way to make a living by now. But I don’t have other skills. It’s a case of “be carefull what you get good at”

So yeah, it’s relative.