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  When Rejection Becomes Your Raw Material: Too Qualified, Too Generalist, Too Outspoken

  19th Nov 2025

  Musings

  life, mental-health, publishing, rejection, writing

  How failures, bias, and closed doors built my resilience more than success ever did I’ve done more than 100 job interviews in my life. Each one carried its own flavor of rejection. Some told me I was “too overqualified” — that with a double Master’s degree, I wouldn’t stay long. The assumption being that ambition equals disloyalty.…