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Building Confidence with Josh Gondelman

Work Appropriate

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Have You Ever Been Fired From a Job?

If what you're embarrassed about or feel this lingering shame over is like the way you were naive, rather than specific outcomes that were genuinely hugely destructive, then it's okay to let go of that. And again, if it was as bad as I'm insinuating it might have been, as An said, there probably would have been some kind of legal consequences. So on your resume or on your application, you had a job for that period of time, and then you had another job and another job. All of those other jobs, especially where your references are coming from, speaks so much more strongly about how well-qualified you are.

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