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I worry about what people will think | Confessions of a job seeker
March 28, 2013 alyson.madrigan@gmail.com

6. I Worry What People Will Think

 

#6. Confessions of a Job Seeker – NEW? Start here
This series is based on a design journal that I kept during 2012 – 2013

This was hard to put on paper, but it was important for me to acknowledge. It revealed the ways I was projecting my doubts and over time helped me to understand that I hadn’t failed at all. I had done what I set out to do. For a while, however, I avoided social events. I wasn’t ready to face up to the questions of ‘what do you do’ and ‘how’s the company?’

When I eventually did get out again, a friend from business school remarked “you did what all of us deep down wanted to do, but none of us actually had the balls to do.” Huh, that was definitely not what I had expected to hear. It’s funny how the stories we spin in our minds can become so distorted and at times even debilitating.