Half Baked

Burned and raw cookie

Picking a career early in life is like grabbing cookie ingredients while hangry. You're rushing and desperate—and convinced that stale nuts and dodgy chocolate chips are a bold choice.

The result: raw potential, sugar, flour, and the extract of unearned confidence. Schrödinger’s Career.

Then you spend decades in the oven of adulthood, becoming an expert at something you never liked doing to begin with.

One day, you realize: you're done. Or... something.

Your dreams? Undercooked. Your soul? Slightly scorched. The oven—definitely broken. And the hot and cold spots have given you a wildly uneven temperament.

Face it, you’re half baked at best.

But maybe, just maybe, you can scrape off the burnt bits, call in a repairman (therapist, lawyer, exorcist), rotate your tray, and see if you can revive some of that raw potential still languishing inside you.

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