Comic: Confidence

Today I had my interview. I feel as if it well but of course only time will tell just how well it went. I thought about it on the way home and the reason I believe it went so well was that, shockingly and completely against my normal state of emotional affairs, I somehow was able to act confident. I envision my inner self to be a confusing maze of corridors lined with doors, some of them wide open, some of them locked with some sort of complicated puzzle based lock. Guess which door confidence is usually behind?

...Yup. Hence my shock.

I've checked out a lot of interview tips on the internet throughout this process and the one that makes me roll my eyes the most is "Confidence is key!!" I mean, Jesus Christ, of course that's freaking helpful but if I was able to drum up more confidence that easily, I wouldn't be looking at this dumb infographic or whatever. Shoot, if I was more confident, I probably would have had a new job ages ago. 

It's a pretty obvious interview/life tip that acting confident can instill confidence in you in others but that's easier said than done. My confidence isn't failing me because I forgot to like, flick a switch or something. It's been a very long and difficult process to get to the point where I can be asked a question like "how do you feel about occasional public speaking?" in an interview and not laugh and run away. But here I am. Regardless of whether or not I get the job (I'm one of the top 2 candidates though!!), I was able to do even better than what my best used to be. So hey, go me.

I'll leave you with a comic I just so happened to stumble across today that sparked this post. Enjoy.

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