End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood

What happens when you land your dream job and everything you've been working toward becomes a complete nightmare? This is Patty Lin's story. She climbed the ladder as an award—winning television writer (often the only Asian person in the room) only to be confronted by discouragement, burnout, and toxicity.

“Why would you quit such a cool career?”

One minute Patty Lin was begging her way into the audience of Late Night with David Letterman. Just a few years later, through relentless hard work ...