Like the cliché goes, there is plenty of blood, sweat, and tears when you enter agency life. And plenty of long and late nights. Lack of sleep, lack of clarity, lack of direction, lack of balance, lack of advocating and self-advocating… Put all these factors together and challenges arise. Stress. Disappointments. Sometimes other people let you down; sometimes you let yourself down. But you learn from it. You hold yourself to certain ideals. You know what you will do. And what you won’t ever do — or ever do again.