Originally Posted by JohnBurke

In two subsequent posts, twenty minutes apart, you attempt to call me out for attacking you, then turn around and agree with me, and in a concurrent thread in another forum here, where your story is playing out, you accuse me once more. This, in the space of a few minutes. I mentioned in the other thread that this sounds bipolar.

You need to understand, despite your paranoia and cornered-cat behavior, the posts that have been made, every one in response to YOUR comments, have all been made in your best interest.

You need to understand that your situation isn't particularly isolated or unique. I've seen your case before. Three such cases posting nearly simultaneously on this web site right now. All different responses: yours is the most defensive and scattered, and it's perplexing. You jump back and forth between agreeing, defending, denying, excusing, and full circle again. There is no character arc of change, which is requireid for a story. A story has direction; yours, at the moment, is more like the perimeter of an amoeba. You may not understand this.

Again, you need to understand that your situation is not a singular anomaly, an outlier that is so foreign as to be incomprehensible. Most of us who have been in the industry for very long have seen it. I've represented individuals nearly in the same boat as you; the ones who were successful were quick to own their failures, embrace the changes, seek the assistance they needed, and move forward. You can cry over spilt milk all day long. You can slap down the counsel you've been given, as you continue to do. This doesn't hurt me. It doesn't hurt anyone else here. It is to your detriment, and yours alone. Some of us have done this for a long time now. Many decades. We've seen failures happen. Many of us have had our own. Career setbacks occur, sometimes of our own making, sometimes entirely out of our control (mergers, bankruptcies, regulatory changes, economic downturns, yada, yada), yet we roll with them, adjust, and re-evaluate our game plan going forward. Many of us have been fired, furloughed, laid off, shown up to a locked hangar; you name it. The bottom line is that to find yourself in a situation in which your progress in one particular direction is limited, is not the end of the trail. You have opportunities and a future, but it depends entirely on you.