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by Mz 3295 days ago
I will also add the thought that you might find it helpful to do volunteer work of a sort that really tugs at your heartstrings as a means to put your day job in perspective.

I paid accident claims for over five years and a lot of my coworkers found this to be disturbing work. But, among other things, I had been a military wife and raised two special needs kids. It was rare that I took any of the emotional stress home with me. I stressed about making quota every day, but most of the run of the mill accidents did not get a rise out of me. Once in a while, I would read something particularly gruesome and have trouble with that. But I think this was on the order of once a year or so.