I feel like a failure. I don’t have the drive to compete with friends and peers; I don’t have the emotional energy required to work late into the night and on the weekends for free; I don’t want to play a toxic game. I feel like I put my life on hold during the PhD. I cannot do that anymore. I will not go back to that unhealthy life destroying void. But that makes me a failure in this place.

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