It Can Always Get Worse

Starting over when you've barely just begun

In 2021, I was convinced my life had finally started. Two years out of college and a million applications on USAJobs later, I managed to secure the unicorn job I was told by countless foreign policy wannabes ‘for sure, like, didn’t exist.’ My then boyfriend (now, husband) and I had survived first-time cohabitation during the pandemic and had only come o…