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My Wife and I Cried — The Hidden Risk of Job Offers
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“My wife and I cried,” He said to me.
Why? His job offer was revoked in the 11th hour. And by 11th hour, I mean they’d flown him out to their offices for an interview and to meet their team. And they’d flown to his city, where they invited him to drinks to toast to his new job after he verbally accepted their offer. Then, they revoked the offer. He said it best, “It’s a gut punch!”
A stunning candidate.
He’d grown up in a blue collar neighborhood and confessed he had a quiet chip on his shoulder because he felt looked down on by people from the surrounding, more privileged areas. Delivering papers by age 12 for pocket money and college savings, when he wasn’t working, he became an Eagle scout and was recruited to play football in college. He did it for the sholarship. They made him captain of the team. Bottom line is he hustled his ass off to get to where he was.
Fresh out of college he got a job with a small Wall Street firm by sending donuts with his résumé. He was so good at what he did, he parlayed that into a job with an international bank you’ve heard of. That bank sent him to the Eastern bloc to restore a currency.
