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It's 5:47pm. You're aligning bullet points on slide 14. Your CEO is in a strategy session you weren't invited to. You took this role — Executive Assistant to the CEO — because you wanted to be close to decisions. Instead, you are very close to PowerPoint. The strategic right-hand seat you signed up for has quietly turned out to be an operational one. Name the feeling exactly. It's not failure. It's not even disappointment, quite. It's the slow realisation that proximity to p