My finances are usually uncomplicated enough that most of my life I've done the 1040EZ. However, the last two years I had heft payments (one from an annuity my mother left, the other a payoff from my old apartment, signing over my tenant rights). I went to Block Advisors and had a pretty good experience (except, of course, having to pay the taxes). It might not apply, but I thought I'd toss that in.

not sure if anyone still looks in here. I don't have usual work or work things, I know, but I still need thoughts about quitting. Like, when is it time? Because #shepersisted is sort of, you know, the one thing I get credit for, but in practice, it means I'm in a meeting, like, always. It's been like that for years, but I'm older now, and we've all just gotten a painful example that life can be fleeting and I don't want to spend that last day in a zoom about advocacy. Which I don't even think I'm that good at(aside from being somewhat hard to kill, I guess) there is another question about what I'd do instead that, yes, I do try to bury in work--it's not exactly helping anymore. Yet, I know political progress can be very slow, incremental, etc.

If it isn't satisfying for you anymore you could consider taking a break from it for a set amount of time and seeing how you feel. You can always go back. FWIW, I have always admired the work you do. I don't participate in any kind of advocacy to any great extent. and it is important and vital work. So yeah, it is appreciated.

It might have softened the blow, if, even one time, I got to be part of a sexy movie campaign. Not that I've done any of that just to meet someone, but it would have been nice(I know more people than ever, actually, but have rarely felt farther from any of that!) Thanks, Laura. That's nice to read.(Because they don't/can't offer me a paycheck, the people are appreciative and when it was all about me learning new stuff all the time, that was good enough. I wouldn't say it's stale now, but it has been about ten years...it's not shiny and new, either. Sometimes, I have gotten into "If I'm so valuable, why doesn't anybody really want to pay me?" but it doesn't take food out of my mouth that they don't, and I don't really want the government getting too curious about what I do, anyway.) Never really seems like a great time to take a break...some of these problems don't stop. And it's *always* the defining election. But maybe I should think about it.

Clients are driving me crazy!!!! Okay, thank you, I just needed to say that somewhere.

Yeah, it's a thing they seem to like to do. Sorry!