Re:I didn't get a return offer and that's okay
by bb88 on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @11:09PM
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You've just been through what 16-17 years of education where professors and teachers have been grading you. If you get an A, you feel good about yourself, and if you get a C, D, or F you might feel like a failure.
Now that you're making a transition to the workforce, it might be tempting to look at the world through the same viewpoint you viewed college. If you didn't get a job offer say, you might feel like a big failure. You might even have replaced your college mascot sweater with corporate logo wear.
Employment should be seen as a business relationship first. If feel your ego wrapped up in your company as if it were your alma mater, maybe it's time to take a step back and ask yourself how you're going to feel when your services will no longer be needed. In the end budgeting and large corporate strategy are really not judgments about you and your abilities, but rather whether your skills map to the companies future. Microsoft simply chose to go a different direction -- and feeling disappointed is okay.
The fact is, you get to decide what is a failure and what is not. I don't see this as a failure for you, though I suspect you do. Who knows you might even be in a better company in two years, right?
Now that you're making a transition to the workforce, it might be tempting to look at the world through the same viewpoint you viewed college. If you didn't get a job offer say, you might feel like a big failure. You might even have replaced your college mascot sweater with corporate logo wear.
Employment should be seen as a business relationship first. If feel your ego wrapped up in your company as if it were your alma mater, maybe it's time to take a step back and ask yourself how you're going to feel when your services will no longer be needed. In the end budgeting and large corporate strategy are really not judgments about you and your abilities, but rather whether your skills map to the companies future. Microsoft simply chose to go a different direction -- and feeling disappointed is okay.
The fact is, you get to decide what is a failure and what is not. I don't see this as a failure for you, though I suspect you do. Who knows you might even be in a better company in two years, right?