Last month I gave a workshop at the Screen Actor's Guild Conservatory here in San Francisco and afterwards spoke with several of the professional actors there. It was interesting to note that they all had this in common: They have all had a devastating blow to their career at one point or another that they're still recovering from. This might have been in the form of rejection, a horrible audition, or even worse, a traumatic event like being raked over by the press. And yet