309: What if you gave everything to The Job?
This Is Actually Happening
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🗓️ 5 March 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Endowed with a strong drive from a young age, a woman becomes a workaholic and marries a wonderful man with similar ambitions, but when he faces a failing project, life-long toxic work patterns come to a tragic conclusion.
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Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits, Sara Marinelli
Content/Trigger Warnings: drug use, hallucination, suicide, graphic bodily injury, death, explicit language
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| 0:00.0 | This is actually happening features real experiences that often include traumatic events. |
| 0:04.1 | Please consult the show notes for specific content warnings on each episode and for more information about support services. I texted him and said where are you and he didn't answer so I thought I would give him another half an hour, and then I would find out where he was. |
| 0:29.2 | I regret that half hour. From Wundery, I'm Witt Misledyne. |
| 0:43.8 | You are listening to this is actually happening. |
| 0:47.0 | Episode 309. |
| 0:55.0 | What if you gave everything to the job? This episode is |
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| 1:56.0 | How do I tell them? How do I tell them? How do I tell them? How do I be the bills? |
| 2:01.0 | How do I pay the bills? I know what goes through your head when you're living with cancer. |
| 2:07.0 | The questions, the fears, the need to know. |
| 2:11.0 | How do I know? |
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| 2:47.6 | strict upbringing. Her family was quite poor. They moved around a lot. She was also diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis |
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