

Yeah. This has been true for basically my entire adult life. Graduated high school in '02 into a job market still fucked from the dotcom crash, got my theater career into gear, destroyed utterly by the GFC. Went from construction to pest control as I was looking for more recession proof work, was a season away from getting my ACE certification… Destroyed by covid-19.
If this was it, I probably could maybe at least have a shot, but then I quit nicotine, fell while feeling sick and dizzy from withdrawal and got a TBI.
I’ll be lucky if I get to continue living in anything remotely as nice as this little apartment I’m in with my brother.
Honestly, almost never had a shot anyway, even without my personal issues.

This seems pretty obviously from cooking. If you don’t put enough of an ingredient in, it gets lost in the sauce, meaning you can’t even detect its presence.