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Our Careers Deserve So Much More
4 min readDec 11, 2023
The sun sets as Pat pulls into her driveway. As she gets out of her car, she stares back at her mailbox — debating. Motioning reluctantly toward the mailbox, she hears a sudden knocking on the front window of her home. It’s her seven-year-old daughter Jessica waving eagerly at her through the window, while holding up envelopes emblazoned with the words “PAST DUE” in red. As Pat goes inside…