ValyrianJedi

This may be a weird question, because it's kind of hard for me to articulate what I'm actually wondering. But does it feel more like "my new heart" or more like "someone else's heart that's in me"? And do you think it would be different were it not anonymous?... Is it ever somewhat disconcerting to think that your heart used to be in somebody else?... Also, obviously, congrats!

This can be important in all kinds of ways. I really couldn't care less about sports. I'm in corporate sales though, and building rapport is literally everything in my job, so even though I don't watch them one of the first things I do when I get in the office each morning is check the scores of whatever games were on the night before, and if it's a big game watch the highlight reel. As messed up as it is that it matters, something as simple as an "oh, you have a Panthers mug, did you watch that game last night? It was nonsense when yadda yadda yadda" when you first walk in someone's office can change the tone of an entire hour long meeting that comes afterwards.

Can stress alone cause legitimate IBD? I tend to eat very healthy and am religious about my exercise routine and health in general, but I work 12-14 hours a day in a demanding high pressure field and spend 80-100 nights a year bouncing through hotels for work, so even though I keep a great eye on health my stress levels can be through the roof pretty frequently. I'm only able to go to the bathroom once every 3 days, like clockwork, between 6 and 8am, and when I do it is fairly unpleasant. I've had a handful of people tell me that it is just stress, but I have a hard time believing that. Can stress literally bring on a gastrointestinal disorder like IBS?

I sell software now but sold cars for a good while... Car dealerships have massive turnover. A ton of people who work at them only work there a few months. Sales is very much not a skill that everyone (or even many people) can master, and at most dealerships you are fired if you miss quarterly quota by one car once. Plus, a lot of people quit after a couple months because of the environment and demanding nature. So they almost always need people... So in terms of how people get the jobs, they just apply with an ability to look presentable and speak fairly well. I got sick of a dealership I was at, and to get a job at another I didnt even have to find a posting or someone actively hiring. I just walked in and said, "hey, I'd like to work here. I'm good at hitting quotas" and that was it.

Not liking spending money one one thing doesn't mean you have to like spending it on another