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Super confidential to my paid subscribers, as it involves job stuff. To be clear, I'm not speaking in any way on behalf of my employer.

This morning, I woke up to the dull ache of my first world problems. I wasn’t sure if I had a job.

Let’s backtrack a little.

I’ll start by owning that I’m a privileged person - or, at least, I’ve become one. Some sixteen or so years ago, I inexplicably scored a policy role after a period of fruitless jobhunting. I was years older than the other starters,…