Rejection is also frustrating. Its validity can be so ambiguous. Am I being rejected for a legitimate reason? Or is it just a byproduct of something else? Someone's ego? The economy? You may have a few black and white instances of rejection. If you get rejected from every job at a certain pay grade, with the reason "needs more expertise", perhaps it is a valid assessment of a current needed area of improvement, and you work to improve. If you get rejected from most jobs you applied to, in a post 2009 sub-prime mortgage Great Recession job market, perhaps the rejections are more a byproduct of the economy. But the in between situations are much more common, much more tenuous in explanation, and leave us wanting of reason.
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
On Coping with Rejection
Rejection is never a pleasant feeling. Whether it be from that guy or girl you like, that group you thought were your friends, a job, or a school, rejection, especially a lot of it, inevitably makes you reevaluate yourself, and begrudgingly... your worth. Am I not worth that guy or girl? Is there something about me that that group of people doesn't like? Was all my hard work not enough for that school?
Rejection is also frustrating. Its validity can be so ambiguous. Am I being rejected for a legitimate reason? Or is it just a byproduct of something else? Someone's ego? The economy? You may have a few black and white instances of rejection. If you get rejected from every job at a certain pay grade, with the reason "needs more expertise", perhaps it is a valid assessment of a current needed area of improvement, and you work to improve. If you get rejected from most jobs you applied to, in a post 2009 sub-prime mortgage Great Recession job market, perhaps the rejections are more a byproduct of the economy. But the in between situations are much more common, much more tenuous in explanation, and leave us wanting of reason.
Rejection is also frustrating. Its validity can be so ambiguous. Am I being rejected for a legitimate reason? Or is it just a byproduct of something else? Someone's ego? The economy? You may have a few black and white instances of rejection. If you get rejected from every job at a certain pay grade, with the reason "needs more expertise", perhaps it is a valid assessment of a current needed area of improvement, and you work to improve. If you get rejected from most jobs you applied to, in a post 2009 sub-prime mortgage Great Recession job market, perhaps the rejections are more a byproduct of the economy. But the in between situations are much more common, much more tenuous in explanation, and leave us wanting of reason.
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