Of Broken Bones and Healing Egos
4 min readSep 17, 2019
2019 has been a dumb year. Real Dumb (grammatical error purposely chosen to emphasize the reality of the dumbness). I was unemployed from January to June. I went on countless interviews and got rejection after rejection after ghosting. It was tough on the ego, as well as my bank account.
On top of that, 90% of my burlesque act submissions were rejected, including every festival application I sent. I was…
