How much rejection can one girl take? I'm on a mission to find out. Agents of course reject you, book publishers- it's what they do. But so do jobs and guys and friends and well pretty much life.
When I first moved to Bellingham I applied to 50 jobs and I got hired by Petsmart. So the rejection rate of a minimum wage retail job for a college graduate I would put at 98%.
I was calculating in my head when I was bored running the other week and I relized I have not asked out as many guys as I thought- only like 8 I could think of in the last 8 years. Well, I only meet one worth asking out about once a year and sometimes they aren't even worth asking out it's just that I can't find anyone who is! I thought my rejection rate was a lot higher but as I remember it I only got 3 straight out no's out of that, 2 yes's and 3 mixed messages that later turned into no's. Of course all of them turned into no's when it came to any sort of commitment (some of them it was too much commitment to even talk to me) so I'm going to say my rejection rate there is only about 100%. In fact I have even been rejected by guys I haven't even asked out, wasn't even thinking about in a hundred years asking out! They go out out of their way to reject me. So maybe it's even greater than 100%.
I haven't written to many agents yet but I will. So far it is 100% rejection rate, 50% we're not even going to bother rejecting you rate. I have read online that their rejection rate is right around 99%. Goody so I only have to write to 98 more?
This puts life's rejection rate at around 99%.
The good news is you only really need one, you only need that one or two percent, you just have to put up with a lot of rejection to get it.
When I first moved to Bellingham I applied to 50 jobs and I got hired by Petsmart. So the rejection rate of a minimum wage retail job for a college graduate I would put at 98%.
I was calculating in my head when I was bored running the other week and I relized I have not asked out as many guys as I thought- only like 8 I could think of in the last 8 years. Well, I only meet one worth asking out about once a year and sometimes they aren't even worth asking out it's just that I can't find anyone who is! I thought my rejection rate was a lot higher but as I remember it I only got 3 straight out no's out of that, 2 yes's and 3 mixed messages that later turned into no's. Of course all of them turned into no's when it came to any sort of commitment (some of them it was too much commitment to even talk to me) so I'm going to say my rejection rate there is only about 100%. In fact I have even been rejected by guys I haven't even asked out, wasn't even thinking about in a hundred years asking out! They go out out of their way to reject me. So maybe it's even greater than 100%.
I haven't written to many agents yet but I will. So far it is 100% rejection rate, 50% we're not even going to bother rejecting you rate. I have read online that their rejection rate is right around 99%. Goody so I only have to write to 98 more?
This puts life's rejection rate at around 99%.
The good news is you only really need one, you only need that one or two percent, you just have to put up with a lot of rejection to get it.
No comments:
Post a Comment