The Hard Way Highway: How I Bounced Back from My Career Rock Bottom

A very millennial essay about allowing myself grace and dismantling my relationship to hard work.

Taking the New York State real estate exam with one slide on my foot during a smoldering hot Manhattan summer (a man knocked it clean off my foot into the train tracks minutes before I was due to take the test) should have set the tone for what was to come of that pit stop in my professional journey.