What a great read. Congratulations on all your successes. I wish you more success moving forward.

I’m currently navigating a bit of a life transition myself. I spent the last 10 years of my life working in the film/tv industry. I mainly worked on major motion pictures and television shows among other smaller and yet more memorable projects. The work is engaging, the people are eclectic. I’ve met some of my best lifelong friends through work. I have traveled to about 25 different countries from one job and I even earned my pilot’s license!

Due to this pandemic, all of that came to a screeching halt. I haven’t worked since March, I still don’t get calls for jobs, I moved back to my parents house just to cut expenses down to near 0 and it doesn’t look like work will return for me anytime soon. And to be frank, work in recent years started to border on the line of unfulfilling. Hollywood can be a real pain. I sacrificed my social independence that I took 10 years to cultivate and grow into something I am proud of. Especially the pilot’s license. I just decided one day I wanted to learn, studied my god damn ass off and achieved what I thought was impossible. Now I really love flying.

Thats where I am now. The license I have currently is the bare bones of flying. I cannot get any jobs with it but one day thats where I’d like to be. I’m currently setting a new routine for myself and spend every weekday studying and reading about the higher advances of flight. Its a lot of work and knowledge and makes me feel dumb all over again but I welcome the headaches. It won’t make me as much money as my old job but its what I love doing and the feeling of achieving that first license when the wheels touched pavement after landing is deeply satisfying.

I’m over the hump of feeling angry, frustrated and depressed about slowly and gradually changing careers I felt so proud of but sometimes life throws us these curveballs. I will one day decide to commit fully to this new path once I get enough things crossed off my list and I will miss my old life. But all we can do is move forward and continue learning.

I enjoyed reading your story and shall draw inspiration from it. It will make a lovely addition to my collection of small moments that will lead to that big moment. This pandemic sucks and his kicked my life in the nuts. But it won’t be the end of me.

Cheers.