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Dealing with Professional Rejection

Or, How I Survived Being (Mostly) Unemployed for 8 Months

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Cameron Chapman
Aug 23, 2023
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A photo from Badlands National Park I took on a road trip roughly one month before I got laid off.

If you work in a creative industry, rejection is part of the deal. Not everyone is going to like your particular flavor of creativity and some of those people will make sure you know that. In other words, if you want a career doing anything even a little bi…

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