As perhaps you already know, I’m an actor. I can be found in some video stores (if you look really hard) but mostly I pop up on TV here and there selling god-knows-what or playing the guy who DOESN’T get the girl or boy (a trend I’m concerned with) in a number of shows. But this is my living, it’s my only income, and I don’t want to do anything else. So when we actors who rely solely on income from acting (it’s not a pride thing to not serve tables. I used to but came to grips with the fact that I’m no good at it) have slow weeks, or slow months, or, yes, a slow year, the pressure, both financially and emotionally, can be huge…when you’re single. When you’re married it can sometimes be worse—worse because you can’t help but feel like you’re letting the team down.
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