I don’t live in Iowa but have a small farm and live surrounded by farmers and ranchers. You have to understand that these people have the tiniest of perspective to the world. They spend almost their entire lives on one property, rarely go anywhere due to the nature of farming, and constantly have right-wing radio on in the truck and the barn and fox news on at home. You combine that with limited education across multiple generations and you have a group of people perfectly suited to consistently buy into propaganda and almost never able to identify things that will eat their face in the end.

Isn’t Iowa one of those shithole countries? /s

Wilford Brimley? Didn’t know he played tennis. Die a beet us!

Look elsewhere.

That’s what feels different for me this time. Before I took a break and came back fine. This time … I just don’t know… Every day is worse.

And that’s WITH limitations on social media, getting outside more, medication and spending more time with family.

(It’s like the therapist scene from Office Space)

The fact that you even weighed the pros and cons of your proposal puts you light years ahead of most hiring managers.