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Restless

Impatient. Frustrated. Annoyed. Confused. Scared. So scared. Two weeks ago, I hit the six month mark at my job. As my coach gave me an amusing congratulations, and the other analysts and I breathed a sigh of relief that we had made it this far, I felt the strangest wave of panic pinch my heart.  As I sat at my desk staring out the window at the buildings that had once brought me so much wonder and excitement, I felt unease. Here I am a college-educated woman, with a competitive first job, working in the city of my dreams, surrounded by intelligent and kind people, and all I feel is dissonance. A feeling that I don't belong, that I am incomplete, that I am not aligned. It's interesting...when we're in school all we want is to get hired, to be able to prove that the money and time we had spent in our education was meaningful, but what happens when we make that leap and begin working? A couple days go by and the new wears off, a couple weeks go by and we begin wishing fo...