“I tell this story now because if it weren’t for the pandemic I would likely still be in the music industry, struggling in California.”

Who said it, and where.

Who said “I tell this story now because if it weren’t for the pandemic I would likely still be in…”? Isaac Mashman said it in his essay "Why I Pivoted from the Music Industry to Public Relations", Executive Thoughts, October 22, 2023, first published on Medium.