Yeah I know it’s a little glib, but - > Status limbo is a state of ambiguity and future uncertainty about your status, both in your estimation and as perceived

Yeah I know it’s a little glib, but - > Status limbo is a state of ambiguity and future uncertainty about your status, both in your estimation and as perceived by others … status limbo seems to be a universal human experience that we all have more than once in a lifetime. Sure I’ve had that experience… in grade school. But as an adult? I can’t think of the last time I was concerned with the kind of status that the author is describing. Uncertainty about my own status? In my own estimation? How could there be? I know me, I like me, I is what I is - what’s to be uncertain about? Other people’s uncertainty? How? About what? Again, it’s been a long time since I’ve fretted about what others might secretly think of me. And to tie all this into a job, of all things? It’s just such an alien perspective, to hear an adult (I assume) worrying over such an… as you say, an ‘imaginary affliction.’ What kind of world must they be living in where such concerns would be legitimate?