I didn't get the job so I'm booking flights for next month, this is how I reframe rejection as redirection

some platitudes can really change your life if you take them to heart

I want a new tattoo

I have to pay an additional 750€ for my orthodentic treatment because this other asshole fucking scammed me (me and over 100 other parients) and it's gonna take another two months of this shit

it's the fortieth anniversary of my grandmother's death today, my mom is still grieving and so am I – for a woman I could not meet but has still shaped so much of me

if I get this day job my first pay check will go towards Spanish lessons and that black coucou intimate mini dress

I love doing this job but hate all the things around it – the marketing, the "networking", and the talking about it