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My life in a nutshell. Although I'll contend that the author comparatively has no right to say it. It seems like they have moved up the ladder and into higher paying roles. I have not.
I really don't like the false modesty
I felt the same. The presentation is innovative and impressive (for sure a SUCCESS), but I do not feel like there's anything broadly meaningful in the content and the whole thing feels like a massive exercise in namedropping.
Damn you've done and tried a lot of stuff! What I've learned from that resume is that you can fail 100 times, but all you need to be "set" is one ZipX that gives you the cash freedom to chase other dreams.
It really demonstrates the importance of continuing to work even after failures and pivoting often because you never know when or which idea will take off.
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I was also confused but those are jobs he applied for but wasn't hired.
Ones I got interviews for and didn't get
Have you ever thought about opening a business to teach people how to fail?
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Ones I got interviews for and didn't get
I can't even get 10% of the number of interviews. I feel like you have little justification to say "In fact, almost everything I have tried to do has failed". Clearly you've been very successful in general. Much more so than people like me.
I don't want to assume this is violation of privacy. Perhaps you're on terms with them and they're public about it.
But are they? Because if they're not, I believe you should remove it.
(I'm speaking vaguely, because I don't want to repeat that bit of information here and make it more immortal).