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The stench of burnt coffee hung thick as I hunched over my laptop at 3 AM, staring at another spreadsheet that mocked my existence. My palms left sweaty smudges on the trackpad while Excel formulas blurred into hieroglyphics. For weeks, I'd been reverse-engineering discounted cash flow models from outdated textbooks, each error feeling like a personal failure. That’s when my thumb spasmed—a caffeine tremor—and accidentally tapped the Wall Street Oasis icon buried in my cluttered home screen.

The fluorescent lights of the conference room hummed like angry hornets as my presentation unraveled. Slides froze mid-transition, my voice cracked on quarterly projections, and beneath the polished oak table, my knees vibrated like guitar strings. Later, in the elevator's suffocating silence, I caught my reflection - not a rising marketing director, but a fraud sweating through silk. That night, insomnia pinned me to damp sheets while my phone glowed with relentless LinkedIn updates from peers

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