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Career motivation quotes for rejection emails and Sunday nights
Sunday, about six o'clock, and Monday has already arrived in your stomach. Or the interview went well, you liked them, and the email starts with “unfortunately”. That was application ten.
Work has a way of getting into who you think you are, and most career quotes make it worse by shouting about hustle. People who have been through a long job search describe capping it to a set time each day so the rejection count doesn't take over the evening. Some keep a list of wins for the day they have to ask for more money, or for a bad week when they can't remember any.
You won't be told to quit, or to be grateful. The job hunt and the bad boss are draining enough, and the lines treat them that way, with some dryness.
The moments
- Sending the tenth application into silence
- A rejection after an interview that went well
- Sunday evening, when Monday arrives early
- A manager presenting your work as theirs
- Outside the meeting room, about to ask for the raise
- Watching a peer get the promotion
What people say helps
- A daily limit on job-search time
- Keeping skills and self separate from the job title
- Treating Sunday dread as information about the job
- Talking it through with one person they trust
“Be grateful you have a job” and “follow your passion” skip over the actual problem, and “it's a numbers game” is small comfort on number ten.
Quill Originals are written by Quill. Popular sayings are widely repeated lines with no name attached. Lines with a name are checked word for word against public-domain books.
Quill Originals
Phone down.
Being let go hurts and says little about your work.
Someone slept well tonight because of your shift.
You didn't snap. Nobody will ever know how close it was.
You've kept your manners in a place that lost its own.
Between jobs is a real place. Lots of people are there today.
Nobody minds the question as much as you think.
Your last team knew what you were worth. They haven't changed their minds.
Jobs without fancy titles keep the whole place running.
Bad fit happens.
Youngest in the room? You were still invited.
Review season makes adults feel twelve.
Go home.
You went in. That was the hard part of today.
Quiet competence gets few thank-yous.
Unpaid worrying isn't in your contract.
Say it, then let the silence do some work.
Too junior for one, too senior for another. Annoying and common.
A bad review is one person's opinion with a form attached.
Today was a bad day and you still turned up with a face on.
Being overlooked hurts. Tell someone you trust.
Fed up with being told you should be grateful? Fair.
Popular sayings
Never stop learning.
Go the extra mile.
Nobody will work harder for you than you.
Growth begins at the end of your comfort zone.
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.
Dress for the job you want.
From the books
Fortune has often been blamed for her blindness; but fortune is not so blind as men are.
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Fortune has often been blamed for her blindness; but fortune is not so blind as men are. Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators. In the pursuit of even the highest branches of human inquiry, the commoner qualities are found the most …
Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference.
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Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference. What we need to know in any case is very simple. It is but too easy to establish another durable and harmonious routine. Immediately all parts of nature consent to it. Only make something to take the place of something, and men will behave as if it was the very thing they …
The world always stands aside for the determined man.
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The world always stands aside for the determined man. Will makes a way, even through seeming impossibilities. "It is the half a neck nearer that shows the blood and wins the race; the one march more that wins the campaign: the five minutes more of unyielding courage that wins the fight." Again and again had the irrepressible …
Practical wisdom is only to be learnt in the school of experience.
Character is greater than any career.
Every man, however wise, who begins by worshipping success, must end in mere mediocrity.
Whatever your vocation, let quality be your life-slogan.
You shall not be The grave of your deserving.
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