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PS Juliana -- I feel the same way about Emotional Intelligence. When I was quite young, my brother, working as a welder in a large factory, said, "I never want to be like you are your friends. You think too much. Me and my friends, we get together on the weekend, have a few beers, and lay a driveway for one of us."

Sounds rather idyllic, doesn't it?

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It does. LOL. I do sometimes envy how contented my little brother is. He works in a slaughterhouse. He cracks me up. He told me he likes his job because he works with animals. So, I said, "but the animals are dead"... and he responded, "but they're alive for a little while." He likes to watch tv, get together with friends once in a while and listen to music and smoke pot, has a girlfriend he loves, loves his daughter (although wishes he could see her more often)... He has all he needs to be happy. He doesn't overthink anything. He just goes with the flow and he's contented.

When I was a kid, the school wanted me to skip 3 grades. I'm thankful that my mum said NO to that. She was sort of the opposite of me when she was a child. She had trouble learning and failed 2 grades. She always felt like she didn't belong because she wasn't in classes with kids her own age. She didn't want me to feel the same way. She thought that me developing socially with kids my own age was more important than jumping grades. I was already the smallest kid -- even amongst kids my own age. I'm glad she made that decision. I often felt different because of the way I am, but I didn't have to deal with the added struggle of being the youngest kid in the class.

I wish you didn't have to wait so long to hear the results of your job interview. 3 hours sounds so intense. Ugh. I'm not surprised you found it stressful. I'm keeping everything crossed for you. It's going to be hard to function this way.