I won’t have a job soon. Apparently.

There’s been a weird tone creeping into all my conversations lately. Not loud panic. Not screaming. Just… a moderate, constant hum. The kind you notice when you stop and realise everyone around you is talking a bit faster than usual. Friends ask how work’s going, but they don’t really mean it. Colleagues phrase things like questions that are actually stress tests. People who’ve been calm for years…