Never being Rejected

mad turnip

never mind

Cypher_sounds

Breffmeister is that you??

Xenophile

The experience of rejection is quite a positive thing and for many it leads to greater wisdom and success.

Rejection can in many forms for instance, relationships, house mates, family members, work, how many sales people experience it everyday, class teachers, team sports, etc,etc,etc.

If life is wonderful for you don't change anything, but if you think you should be aiming a little higher as the title of a best selling book says........."Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway"

mad turnip

Xenophile wrote: »

The experience of rejection is quite a positive thing and for many it leads to greater wisdom and success.

Rejection can in many forms for instance, relationships, house mates, family members, work, how many sales people experience it everyday, class teachers, team sports, etc,etc,etc.

If life is wonderful for you don't change anything, but if you think you should be aiming a little higher as the title of a best selling book says........."Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway"

I should really be aiming higher as this is to me the lowest of the low (although career wise its very good). I've always seen myself as hugely successful by the time i'm 30 and retiring. But my family encourage me to take the position knowing i'm far more qualified than likely needed.

Xenophile

mad turnip wrote: »

by the time i'm 30 and retiring.

At the age of 30 no matter what you do in life you will not have even completed your apprenticeship, in fact you will just be starting it.

Ray Palmer

mad turnip wrote: »

I should really be aiming higher as this is to me the lowest of the low (although career wise its very good). I've always seen myself as hugely successful by the time i'm 30 and retiring. But my family encourage me to take the position knowing i'm far more qualified than likely needed.

You sound like most graduates. When you see 20 of them in one place who are all together it is funny. They can't all be hugely successful and when you meet them later you find the aren't.
When you come from college into the real world you will find you know very little especially in IT.

As for rejection you better learn to deal with it because you are going to get a lot. Unless you have the highest grades in college you are competing with everybody from all the colleges including those with the highest grades in their colleges. Is the college you went to the one with the best reputation? Unless you have the top grades and the best college you are already behind people.

smcgiff

mad turnip wrote: »

Hi All,

So i've recently finished an engineering degree with some IT aspects. Over the course of the past 4 years, I've applied to very few jobs, while I was in Uni I applied to lifeguard / shop assistant jobs and always gotten them. Last year for some work placement I got a job with the first place I applied for and then again this year when I finished my degree, months before I finished I applied for somewhere else and got it first interview.

I've only ever not gotten a job once (this is due to terrible answers I think). I'm quite good at the jobs I'm applying for, am I being cocky or am I just a huge cut above the rest?

I reject your opening post as you have been rejected - never means not once being rejected and you were, despite your rationale for said rejection.

That you think you'll be retired in less than 10 years at the age of thirty when you've probably another 50 years of life to go would lead me to think you're a walter mitty type character.

Besides, there's a famous saying along the lines of if you've never failed you never know how far you could have gotten (or words to that effect).

ABajaninCork

Troll. And not a very good one....:rolleyes:

UDP

mad turnip wrote: »

I've only ever not gotten a job once (this is due to terrible answers I think). I'm quite good at the jobs I'm applying for, am I being cocky or am I just a huge cut above the rest?

So the title of the thread is "Never being Rejected" but yet you have been rejected. Do you live in a fantasy world where language means the opposite to what it means in reality? You are very intelligent - translate that into your fantasy world language.

Mrs OBumble

Let's leave it there.