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I had an experience not quite as concrete but similar. I had a recurring dream where someone or something was banging on the door. It wanted in, I was holding the door shut, and I was scared to open the door. But at the time I was really into Jordan Peterson, who talked a lot about "embracing your shadow", and "integrating your shadow", concepts that Carl Jung came up with.

The last time I had this dream, rather than fight it, I flung open the door, and said "come in, come in". It didn't go well. It was like a demon had crept into my mind, corrupting everything I did. I got fired from work because I'd leave whenever I felt like, couldn't concentrate at all, I recklessly racked up credit card debt, I was just in general acting like a shitty human being.



Hopefully you didn’t need it, but that is a shitty job if you can’t leave whenever you feel like. This isn’t kindergarten.

Edit: Go look through the parent comment history, they worked remotely (like all of us atm) for a large cap company in their tech dept.


So...every customer service job in the world? Also, every blue collar assembly line job? I mean, I personally would hate it if the pilot, midflight, decided he was done for the day.


But the commenter isn't a blue collar assembly line worker. Go read their history, they are an engineer.


Not everyone is in IT.


Right, but the original commenter was, and that is who I was talking to.


Yeah in retrospect it was a really awful job, I can leave whenever I need now.


Did you ever get cured? How did that go?




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