Everyone on my feed is posting offer letters and I'm still grinding.
Muted about six people this week. Not because I'm not happy for them, but because the tenth "thrilled to announce" while I'm on rejection number who-knows-what was quietly taking me apart. I know their post is a highlight and not the whole story, and I know I can't see the months they probably struggled first. Knowing that and feeling it are just really different right now.
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AnonymousAnon The comparison spiral nearly got me too. What helped was keeping a private doc of my own small wins, a callback, a nasty bug fixed, a decent mock. Measuring against last-month me instead of everyone else's highlight reel.
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AnonymousAnon Muting is self-care, not bitterness. I did a full LinkedIn detox during my search and my mood lifted almost immediately. Those posts are the trailer, never the movie, you don't see the eighty rejections behind the one announcement.