Past tense and future lessons

This past week, I began the process of job searching and interviewing. I had postponed beginning the hunt long enough and wanted to get busy so I could brush up on my interviewing skills. After all, interviewing is more of an art in communication than focusing on qualifications.

I found a position online that had appeal and ended up forcing myself to finish what turned out to be an arduous application process. I wanted to quit a few times but stuck it out because I hate to quit and ended up getting two days of interviews out of it. Once the interviewing concluded on Wednesday, they said that I would hear from them, so naturally I found myself waiting and waiting.

After two and a half days of getting stressed over waiting, this morning it finally dawned on me that I needed to give myself a break. I reminded myself of what I initially set out to do. I met those goals and they paid off. I know what you’re thinking, how can there be a pay off when I didn’t get the job? Well, the pay off is that I gathered more information which I may need to have for future applications. I was in fact reminded that interviewing is all about communication and presentation. And finally, never, ever expect them to actually follow up with you unless they are offering you the job.

In this instance, there was no failure in not being offered a job. Rather, the failure would have been if I had given up or did not learn from the experience. Once I reminded myself of these things, I felt the burden lift and the knot left my stomach. Oh and because I tend to carry stress in my stomach, some breathing through my chakras helped too.