April H. February 2021
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I have worked in the entertainment industry for 15 plus years, with quite a heavy travel schedule, traveling three to four months out of the year.
For a lot of colleagues in the industry our careers are how we identify ourselves so during the pandemic many of us have lost our identity.
I am lucky I didn't lose my job but I had survivor's guilt and I didn't know how to call a friend who had lost theirs. I didn't have the words to express how sorry I was and how guilty I felt for keeping my job and I didn't know how to fix the situation. There was a cone of silence because we didn't know what to say to one another and I didn't want to tell them how I was feeling, because that would have been, you know, a selfish conversation to have when they were losing their homes or losing their vehicles or pulling their children out of private school.
Right before the pandemic, I hired one of my closest friends. She has four children. She moved from Washington state and one week before she closed on her home in Tennessee, we had to let her go. Last month when I went over she still didn't have a kitchen sink.
