May I recommend Being rejected over and over and over and over again. This is a gross one. Maybe your stomach tightened up when you read that first sentence. It super sucks. But Amy, you’re wondering, given your massive success - attaining middle age with a mortgaged home in Ottawa, a mid-level public service career and a mild morton’s neuroma on your right foot - what can YOU possibly know about rejection?
I don’t know; we seem to have to buy Worcestershire sauce about once every year or two….