I’d been the rock in the middle of the pond for my friends, that person they could count on for a good cry or honest advice. I’d taken any role I’d been needed for, always making sure to be there, to keep a tight grip on any situation or any crisis. Always calm, always in control. That was probably why my job as an engineering consultant had been so… fitting, so natural, when I’d been paid to plan projects, to provide my expertise and advise in the case of a crisis. And that was probably also why quitting that to do what I really loved – something that could be ruled by emotions – had been so…
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