3 Ways to Combat Career Woes

This is one of the hardest careers in the world. It’s harder than anything I have ever known. The war wounds and scars are etched into my skin and at times have touched my soul. Years of odd jobs to pay for the endless headshots, reels, classes, transportation, and all that goes with being an actor. We take jobs to support ourselves so that we can be ready to drop everything to be at an audition. Saying no to parties and dates so we can study the 10 pages that came in at 6 p.m. that night, getting to the audition at 10 a.m., waiting for over an hour and then told we are only doing the first scene. The hundreds and thousands of no’s we hear throughout our career. It’s hard. 
Here are three tips to make sure career woes never get the best of you.
1. Get a coach in your corner. My mom once said to me, “You are to your students the person you never had.” Have someone in your life that will tell you to get back up and get into the ring again. A person who will never ask, “Hey, did you get that job you auditioned for?” Get a great teacher who will push you to take more risks with the material—a friend who knows how to act who will show up at midnight or the crack of dawn to run