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I am painfully introverted. I’m also a workaholic. I can go days, or even weeks, without talking with another person. I dislike being in large groups of people, and much prefer being with just one other person at a time. On the other hand, through the lens of hindsight, I now realize that one of the biggest factors that led to me quitting my successful engineering career in the late two-thousands, was my need for friendship.