Job application duties are never an easy task, especially during a global pandemic and in a completely different country to the one you have been working in the last 5 years. I have been blessed with relatively easy relocation and I got a couple of offers in the span of 80 days. The unprecedented times we are currently living has caused mass unemployment and redundancy. I was lucky not to be thrown out of any jobs but at the end of the year, I did need to obtain a work contract which could give me some sort of structure to my working days. Mainly my desire to relocate in the United Kingdom has urged me to seek for a stable job rather than depend on the rollercoaster workforce which I have depended on as a freelancer in Peru. It is now, whilst writing this, that I realise that it has been the privilege of my life not having to depend on a contract and being so used to instability I should "be able to" cope with this times. I wanted to take this opportunity to share some of the lessons this process has given me, as well as making transparent that it literally takes around 100 applications to be given an interview (in average). Below some lessons, as well as some random comments, regarding the mentioned experience:

1. This application process has shown me that coping with rejection leads me to unequivocally feel that my work is useless and unimportant because I am unable to "properly" present it. Translation and adaption processes have fascinated me throughout 2020 and I have now become conscious that it spurred out of a personal need to present my work to diverse audiences, people unfamiliar to the energy, flavour and interests of the city of Lima. Feeling impotent of my inability to explain the artists' works is terrible. And whilst I know this spurs from a reduction of the understanding of curatorial work is sometimes understood as the ultimate translation of the artists', I still feel utterly bad when I am unable to talk about my work without retorting to the Spanish Language.

2. Apply early, always. I have rather experienced the bitterness of sending an application too late and having the call completely erased from the phase of the Internet. Even though I hardly ever get to the last available day when applications are received because my anxiety won't let me do so, I still have sometimes waited a couple of days and got bad news, so really: don't leave till tomorrow.

3. Send your application to a friend or a mean family member, they will let you know if they understand whatever you are trying to say in your application documents. If they can't you are going to need to change some sections to make sure it is understandable by a broad audience.

4. If the language you are using to finish the application is another one from your mother tongue, I would recommend you to take as many liberties as you wish. I think I have been so used to getting recommended that other native speaker should look at it and change if needed, but I think by now I have learned that the application should at best reveal your personal voice, dreams, aims and desires. And sometimes adjusting yourself to the needs and preferences of other voices is not the best idea.