getting a job

[I]t’s worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success… I still haven’t drawn the strip as long as it took me to get the job. To endure five years of rejection to get a job requires either a faith in oneself that borders on delusion, or a love of the work. I loved the work.” 

~ Bill Watterson, in a commencement speech talking about his career as a cartoonist and creator of Calvin and Hobbes

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