What a compelling piece. Your experience with "Ricky" was a tough, tough thing to endure. Interesting that what we dream--what we think would be our ideal profession--often isn't.

I thought I wanted to be a simultaneous translator at the U.N. (I wrote about how my translation screw-ups would have probably started WWIII by now https://medium.com/crows-feet/are-you-who-you-thought-youd-be-ae8b5f590972)

Somehow we blunder along, picking up some scars along the way, and find better fits over time. Thank you for an interesting read, and for all the ways you helped young people, Rodrigo.