Do not lose the faith if you don't get the part:Surprisingly, while unemployment has risen to the highest levels in nine years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment rates for stage actors have remained constant for the past two decades. But still, an actor's chance of working is less than 50 percent in a year; in a week, only 15 percent of members of the actors' union are working, according to Actors' Equity.(from The Christian Science Monitor).Follow me on Twitter or subscribe to the feed