Explaining our world to "the others"

Here's the thing -- if you don't live in the working actress bubble, it is hard for people to understand why or even how it is HARD WORK to audition.

Most conversations from non-actors go something like this:

The other: "What's so hard? You just go and read some lines."

You: "Well, it's a little more involved than that, and it's pretty emotionally exhausting."

The other: "Ha. OK."

In this scenario, "the other" is a dick.

But there are some people who really just don't get it. For those people, I would say that perhaps you can explain it like this:

-Do you remember when you weren't working? And how important that first job interview was? How much time you spent prepping for it? And how much you went over in your head what you would say, and how to be charming, and how to not seem nervous, and how to leave such an amazing impression, that you would get it. OK, great. So take that slice of life, multiply it by 3x a day, add crying on cue, memorizing pages of OTHER people's thoughts, then hearing that you didn't get it for no particular reason, and still going into the next one and doing it all over again. 5 days a week. For most of your life."

That should shut them up.