Working at the water quality control board was not where I imagined my geology degree would take me, though neither was the year of unemployment before that. No roughing it in the outdoors, no working with maps, no microscopes. Hell, not even any rocks. Just spreadsheets on a computer screen and four grey walls designed to stop me from interacting with or seeing the hundred other poor souls in that room.

This was the era where I most wondered whether I had depression or not, and researching that led me to learn that the guy who invented cubicles regrets doing so. He envisioned some kind of cool swiss army knife of desks, but once capitalism got a hold of his ideas corporations just saw a new way to treat employees like cattle. Just spreadsheets and zero human interaction for eight hours per day. Whenever someone did show up it was basically a jump scare because you go from feeling totally alone to having someone in your personal space with zero in-between. I fell asleep more often than I'd want to admit, only to wake up terrified that I'd been caught.

I got through this era by browsing a lot of furry art on my phone lol

I suppose it's no wonder that I was burning the candle at both ends and moonlighting as a youtuber. I needed to like something that was happening in my life. But boy, working two jobs just becomes your entire life. Do not recommend. Thankfully youtube surprised me and accidentally became my full time gig, and here we are.

Thank you to  BBs for this fantastic commission!