I sit in the breakroom and watch the clock because it’s 2am and the fluorescent lights make everyone look like ghosts but mostly I’m just tired of the soldering iron and the way the chemical smell… …

Am I the only one who looks at their life and realizes they’ve just become a high-functioning meat-shield for everyone else’s problems? …

I’m 38 and I spent the last twelve hours redlining blueprints for a firm that treats me like a god when the CAD works and a ghost when it doesn’t. …

I guess this is stupid but I’ve been sitting here at the kitchen table since midnight just looking at my hands and thinking about how they don’t look like nurse hands because they’re still stained… …