The email came in the middle of the afternoon, right when I had given up checking my inbox for the hundredth time. After the interview I had been so nervous, unsure if I will be hired.

I was sitting cross-legged on the couch, I held a cold cup of coffee, my laptop balanced precariously on my knees. I wasn’t even looking at job sites anymore, I was just scrolling aimlessly through old articles about books I had never read, half trying to distract myself, half trying not to think about how ...