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Old Jan 05, 2018, 08:44 PM
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Well... I want to tell you that I'm nearing 70 years old! And I've lived my entire life with so much anxiety I don't know how I could have possibly hung on so long. (And I'm not particularly glad I did.) So, anyway, the point being... a person can live a l-o-n-g time with boatloads of stress! That doesn't mean everybody will. But it can happen.

The other thing I wanted to say is that I spent my working life doing work that required a lot of public contact often drowning in almost unbearable anxiety. And as a result, I was miserable much of the time & my work was frequently marginal at best. It wasn't worth it.

I don't know how old you are. But I presume you have a few working years ahead of you. Hopefully, as you become more familiar with your new surroundings, you'll settle down. But if you find you don't, I want to suggest to you that you think long & hard about where your career is going. Spending years trying survive in a job that keeps your anxiety level in overdrive, so to speak, may not kill you. But it certainly won't do you any good either. I wish you well...
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