What dream would you pursue if you knew that you had literally nothing to lose? What audacious thing would you attempt if you knew that by not attempting you would literally die? That’s where I found myself in the winter of 1984. Married and miserable, selling insurance and miserable, and not pursuing what I knew I was born to do, standup comedy, I realized that if something didn’t change, sooner rather than later, I was going to kill myself. So Suicide became the Secret of My Success https://youtu.be/lYdslVjhaeM But, if you find yourself in a similar fix, for goodness sake, just change careers. But don’t take my word for it, here’s career advice expert, in her Forbes column on me, Robin Ryan https://www.forbes.com/sites/robinryan/2019/07/23/depressed-making-a-change-career-can-help/#1ed0133d4822

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