From This Side Of The Desk, No. 2: She Gave Them Fifteen Years. It Was Only Ever a Job.

She had her résumé pulled up on the screen, and she'd already apologized for it twice. "It's pretty boring," she said. "I've been in the same place forever." Fifteen years, same company, three managers, one acquisition, and a title that had changed exactly once. She wasn't in my virtual office because she'd been laid off. She was there because she'd started to feel something she couldn't name, and she wanted someone to tell her if she was crazy. So I asked her the question I ask everybody. And then I watched a very capable, very smart woman go completely quiet.

What she said when she finally answered is the reason I wrote this...

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