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i recently graduated college and am faced with soul-crushing anxiety about jobs and career that i've been trying to keep at bay for the past few years. i'm infinitely lucky that i've found what i love to do (and am quite good at, i think?) but that just leaves me with anxiety about how to do the best i can in my career. i know what my goal/desired position is for the short term, but it seems so hard - impossible even - to get my foot into that door. i apply to things, get to nearly the final stage, then am turned away for things beyond my control. i have a job i don't love, in a field i don't love, with what seems like little to no room to grow into the direction i want. i guess my question is: how do i combat this uncertainty and fear? how do i move forward when it feels like i know exactly what i want, but i don't know if/when i'll be able to get it? more broadly: how do i know what to do *at all*?? Hi Bear, Your question couldn’t have come at a better time. Ever since the workshop R

looking for rejection + a new york workshop!! Ava May 29, 2024 156 16 18 Share Cecily Brown, Rainy Day Women , 2007 dear bear, i recently graduated college and am faced with soul-crushing anxiety about jobs and career that i've been trying to keep at bay for the past few years. i'm infinitely lucky that i've found what i love to do (and am quite good at, i think?) but that just leaves me with anxiety about how to do the best i can in my career. i know what my goal/desired position is for the short term, but it seems so hard - impossible even - to get my foot into that door. i apply to things,

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