When I was in college in New York City, I loved the theater department so much that it became a punchline: my friends and I joked that after graduation, I would take a job there and stay forever. Little did we know that would actually become my reality.
After earning my degree in May 2022, I faced an uncertain job market in an industry still struggling to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, which had forced my hands-on theater program to transition to remote learning.
Even though I was beginning to build a freelance career in theater, I wanted a day job to offer some stability in an unpredictable field. So, when a job as the administrator of…
