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I wish I was so successful I could publicly declare my failures without it affecting my all future job prospects.

I wish I could tweet that I'm looking for work and have 100 people offering me a job in the replies. Must be nice...

I get what you're saying and agree it would be nice, but so long as we're wishing for stuff, I wish we could all, even those of us who are less successful, be able to declare our failures without it affecting our future job prospects.

I'm entirely unremarkable, but looking back I would say most of my biggest personal and professional developments have been built upon some sort of failure or mistake.

You are. No one cares if you declare "X company was not a good fit" or "I messed up on doing this".

You clearly haven't because you, in error, think it'll nuke job prospects.

It won't. They won't care. Trust me.

The most important men in town will come to fawn on me They will ask me to advise them, Like a Solomon the Wise "If you please, Reb Tevye?" "Pardon me, Reb Tevye?" Posing problems that would cross a rabbi's eyes Ya va voy, ya va voy voy vum

And it won't make one bit of difference If I answer right or wrong When you're succesfull they think you really know.

>And it won't make one bit of difference If I answer right or wrong When you're succesfull they think you really know.

Yeah, just not in the field Chris Lattner works in. This thread seems to have him confused for Kim Kardasian.

> If I were a rich man

Immediately, you are wrongful to assume it's a failure on his part.

If it's not a good fit, why can't it be a failure on the employer side?

News! You are successful. And no prospects know it yet.

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