Monthly Archives: June 2010

Lack of qualifications in the field of your choice can severely hamper your prospects and leave you with a constant struggle to be recognized, even with higher work quality and better delivery than those with degrees in the same field.

Like the journey through life, finding the right job is a journey, and you often need to handle rejection. The first strategy to tackle rejection is to never, ever, take it personally. It is perfectly normal to feel dejected if rejected, and that is true in every sphere of life. However, to allow the dejection to develop into a full-blown depression is impractical and extremely harmful to your career.

A couple of years ago, I started seeing a bunch of articles in Vanity Fair,the New York Times, The Village Voice and other publications about a guy named Joe Andes. Here is a portion of one profile of him from the May 2006 Vanity Fair: