You lost. Get over it already
Your approach to disappointment defines you.
Here’s a big secret. Sometimes, you simply get screwed over. You were qualified. You worked hard. You did all the right things. But that didn’t matter. And there’s nothing you can do about it.
Except try again. You can always do that.
That big nonprofit I was dying to work for in college? They rescinded my internship one summer. That’s right. They offered me a future. Only to crush my soul. Like an empty energy drink.
One day, I was planning for a summer in New York. Bragging to my friends. The next, sheepishly backpedaling.
Worst part — you know my friends all thought I’d been lying. Or they suspected I’d done something stupid. Failed a drug test. Turned up on a porn site. Endless possibilities.
Sometimes people get job offers rescinded for good reason. They turn out to be a sex offender, for example. That happened at my last department. We hired a professor. Somehow he slid through the background check. Until a former colleague snitched on him.
You think those kinds of things only happen on Netflix. No, they happen in real life too.
The worst part? I hadn’t done anything wrong.
