I recently met up with a fellow actor friend for coffee. We hadn’t seen each other in a while, so we had a lot to catch up on. We finally got to the part of the conversation where we both talked about our challenges this past year, how we felt stuck in certain places in our respective careers. We ruminated over some projects that fell apart last minute or how we were this close to booking that role that could’ve changed everything. We talked about how it can feel like you’re in the middle of a career desert sometimes, one so vast that you convince yourself you may never, ever get out of it.
It’s a common back-and-forth among the majority of my artistically minded friends. It’s very rare to get together with any one of my actor friends and have them say they’re doing spectacularly. Sure, it’s great when you’re actually working, but you don’t want to rub it in, and you also know that job will eventually come to a close as well. It can feel like there’s a constant deficit when you’re in the downtime. My friend told me she was looking forward to having consistent work this spring; she’d booked a job that came to her through happenstance. It was simply a fun
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