Two-thirds of the companies I applied to for an internship during my MBA, did not even shortlist me for an interview.
I graduated in 2007, at the peak of a booming economy, from a reasonably reputed B-School. Logically, finding a job should have been a cakewalk. Yet, I had to struggle through rounds and rounds of interviews.
And some of my very smart classmates struggled even more, and had to take up jobs that one normally does not seek after an MBA.
If this was the state of the job market in the best possible economy, I dread to imagine how it would be in difficult times. This is what we forget when we make fun of regular corporate jobs.
Yeah — some jobs are great, some are terrible, and most are somewhere in the middle. And if you are in a job that you don’t love, definitely be open to new opportunities.
But don’t beat yourself up for being in a corporate job just because an entrepreneur classmate has raised their 10th round of VC funding, or someone keeps Instagramming photos of working on a hammock on the beaches of Bali.
Landing any job is an achievement — literally any job. Don’t forget that even when your life feels perfectly ordinary. 🤗
– Rajan