In Japan, there are civil servants who work 378 hours of overtime in a single month!
Meetings, originally a good way to solve problems, but nowadays it is spat out by everyone: going to work is not the most exhausting, meetings are.
You can have a window in your relationship, why can't you have a Gap in your resume?
The main reason why we get nervous is that we don't anticipate and prepare for the occasion and the content of the speech.