A risk auditor, specifically.

My entire professional life is constructed on anticipating disaster, on mitigating liability, on tracing fraudulent behavior back through the tangled records that the fraudulent always leave behind.

I had spent a decade teaching executives how to survive supply-chain collapses and data breaches and hostile actions, how to keep functioning when every ordinary system fails.

Staying calm and resourceful in the middle of a manufactured catastrophe was not, for me, an act of extraordinary courage.

It was my job.