Financial Independence: Your Shield Against Job Loss Fear
The Fear That Follows You Home One evening, after pushing another commit past midnight, I couldn’t bring myself to sit up. Not because I was tired—though I was. Not because the commit had issues—it went smoothly, and tested all fine. I couldn’t get up because I’d spent the entire day with a knot in my stomach, wondering if our team would survive the next round of “organizational restructuring.”
Here’s what made it worse: I had no idea if my fear was rational. Were we really at risk? Or was I just catastrophizing? The uncertainty was eating me alive.
