Avery Callahan
You followed the plan. Got the degree, built the career, kept the commitments. And somewhere around 2am on a Tuesday, you started wondering what all of it was actually for.
Not because it failed. Because it worked. And the working wasn't the thing you thought it would be.
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The deal was supposed to work. You kept your end. Nobody kept theirs.
Rob checks his portfolio before he brushes his teeth. Not because he's greedy. Because somewhere around forty-three, the math stopped working and nobody told him. The spreadsheet that was supposed to show a slow, boring climb toward security started showing something else — a plateau that looked a lot like a ceiling, and a ceiling that looked a lot like the rest of his life.
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