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Underpaid. Overrated.

I think it all started to happen at that last interview. See, I'd been on about 9 previous interviews, and had been unemployed for months. I was at that point during your unemployment, where you start to begin to doubt yourself. What they don't tell you about losing your "stable" career, is the amount of emotional turmoil your life begins to get ravished by. First, you're happy right? This is the start of new, big, changes! Change is good! New chapter. Lunch dates with your girlfriends to discuss future plans over champagne. Beach trips to soak up the sun and finally get that much needed, undistracted vacation you'd been craving for years. Years that you gave up simple pleasures such as, sleeping in until noon, and disconnecting your work email from your cell phone so you don't have those moments of panic at 11 pm when you boss is frantically emailing you and you're just trying to watch the Eagles game with your friends. You finally get that tim...