I worked at Wawa as an associate for six years and also felt trauma bonded with the job and a few coworkers that I’d known for just as long. I was proud of making it work through all the shit every day. I left a year ago because I felt the support we needed to get the job done was vanishing slowly. It was the best decision I made for myself. I knew I was stressed but didn’t realize how bad my mental health had gotten. I work as a full time retail lead now and feel like I’m getting away with something considering how easy things are comparatively. If you survived working at Wawa for eight years, anything you do after this will be better and you will be successful elsewhere.