Rejection Ten-Yale

Today I applied for a role with a title big enough to make me pause before clicking submit.

Assistant Director.
Creative Content.
Graphic Design.

I asked myself the usual questions.
Am I ready?
Do I check every box?
Is my path “linear” enough?

Then I remembered why I started this project in the first place.

Rejection therapy isn’t about pretending fear doesn’t exist. It’s about letting it ride shotgun while you keep driving.

I’ve built my creative voice through doing. Through consistency. Through projects no one assigned me, deadlines no one enforced, and stories I felt compelled to tell visually. That counts. Even if it doesn’t fit neatly on a resume.

If the answer is no, I still win.
Because I didn’t shrink my ambition to match my comfort zone.

And if it’s yes?
Then I trusted myself at exactly the right moment.

Either way, this one mattered.