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My mentor told me to write down 3 'no' answers a day and it landed me a $12k raise in 5 weeks
I used to treat job hunting like a numbers game where every application had to be perfect. My mentor at a coffee shop in Portland gave me a weird rule: collect 3 rejections or 'no' answers every day, and write them in a tiny notebook. I thought it was dumb, but I tried it for 5 weeks. I asked for a raise, pitched a project I had no business pitching, and applied to jobs way above my level. Most said no, but one manager said yes to a stretch role, and that bump was $12,000 more a year. The notebook filled up with 47 no's before that yes. The trick was not the no's themselves, it was that asking got easier after the first 10. Has anyone else used a rejection goal like this, and did it actually help or just wear you down?
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verap528d ago
47 no's at 3 a day? That's not a goal, that's a part time job.
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