I'm a sophomore SA at a BB and already feeling anxious about return offers, layoffs, on-cycle (this is what WSO and this world does lol) Guess it only gets worse from here
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Well for starters, you didn’t even ask the question your subject implied.
My best advice is to go to church. Zoom your perspective way tf out and remind yourself that the fact you’re just alive is enough. That menial task you messed up on two weeks ago will seem a lot more trivial afterwards.
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