When we hear the name of people who amaze us with their accomplishments, we tend to forget how much they had to go through to get there. This also includes rejections and multiple failures.
For example, you may have already heard about Elon Musk, but you may have not heard that he actually couldn’t get a job at Nestcape.
Apparently, Netscape didn’t see any computer science degree or experience on Elon’s CV, so they didn’t even give him a chance.
He had degrees in economics and physics from Wharton School.
He actually did try to go to their office but was too shy to talk to anyone there.
Here is the ex-vice president of Netscape describing the situation:
“It’s legendary that he failed to land a job at Netscape. I was a VP there and he submitted a resume and, when no one responded, he chose to enter our lobby and sat there, apparently too shy to speak to anyone. At the time we were hiring up to 50 engineers/month, the hiring activity was unreal, so he would have been easily overlooked.”
If you want to see other examples of people that failed to get a job, read this article that I published in BetterProgramming.
I hope to inspires you to not give up despite having a rejection or failure here and there.
