 How much am I going to volunteer? How much am I going to show what I know? How much am I going to just like sit back and try to understand the dynamic here? And it's exhausting. It's frankly exhausting. So when she turned 26, Emily decided to call a timeout on her career. It was a way for me to say, like, look, I don't know how I'm going to practice architecture, but I know how I'm not going to practice it.