Happy Halloween, everyone. I dont have any hilarious halloween stories for today. Well, none other than the one I have been telling onstage for the past 5 years of when I dressed up as a “wiener” for halloween in 5th grade on the wrong day. Anyway, my main reason for writing is just to say that the wonderful world of unemployment is scary, but do-able. Comedy is going quite alright. If you take a look at my schedule or shows page, you will see that I have recently landed a lot of work. A lot of that is due to the word of mouth of some great comics I have worked with, I think. So thank you to everyone that has helped me along the way. Well, as far as sinking or swimming, I think I will be swimming for a while now.
It is weird, when you are unemployed and do nothing all day, you eventually start to feel like a turd. It’s important to trick yourself into doing things that you can convince yourself are considered worthwhile things. Before I got laid off, I could relax in the evening telling myself that I helped 25-30 borrowers refinance or purchase their homes that day. That’s a feeling of accomplishment. As a comedian, I only feel like I have accomplished something after a show. Well, those are only at night ususally Thurs- Saturdays. So in order to not feel like garbage during the week, you tell yourself that other things are important and “hard work.” Like the other day, I was able to relax without feeling guilty for being a piece of crap all day because I had checked my email, went to the grocery store, and put 2 Netflix movies in the mailbox (both of which I had watched that day). Well, just writing this update on my website is enough to relax guilt free for I’d say 3 days now. Thanks, everyone.