I have always been shockingly lucky in my bad luck. It’s not an exaggeration: Loss of home? Amazing family member takes me in (along with another stray who I end up sharing a futon with for a month) as I figure my mud out. Enough money to make rent and student loan payments, but not enough to buy food? Perceptive coworkers notice I’m losing my hair at an alarming rate and start feigning having “accidentally” brought too much food for lunch and telling me I’d really be doing them a favor by eating some. Loss of job immediately following a disastrous bathroom renovation that had left me traumatized and in debt? Family friend takes me under his wing and shows me how to navigate the local food bank, which was instrumental in holding on to my home.
So here I find myself again, having just lost my job due to the pandemic. Impossibly focused and hopeful: That my (20+) years of work experience -- which include multimedia design in the early days of the interwebz, copywriting for food packaging, radio and tv, customer service, translations and office management -- will serve in the creation of my own digital content shop and turn luck in my favor once more.
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