I became an engineer to protect the planet, and I've spent my career inside companies that treat that goal as a cost to be minimized. Every project meant swallowing another compromise, taking the best I could get and calling it a win because the alternative was nothing. All those small surrenders have added up, and their weight sits heavy on me now.
More people experience this than they realize.
You have spent a career trying to protect the planet inside systems that resist it, and the accumulated compromises weigh heavily on you now.
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.