I am tired

I did not get an internship. I'm honestly kind of relieved that it's over. I did the whole nine yards Hundreds of apps. Cold emails, netwoworking, referalls, and not one single interview.
I hit up every single shop I could think of. I applied to roles all over from PWM to IB, to S&T to Corp fin/corp dev.  I applied to non major locations like Jacksonville where I figured I'd have a better shot.
If you asked me a couple months ago what I would feel like if I got rejected from every app, I think I would have told you that I would feel sad and angry, maybe a bit jealous of my friends who got internships. But truthfully, I am relieved.

Normally I think I would ask for advice but I think now I'm just going to log off and go to sleep. I'm not sure what I will do in the future but I guess I can't control it. Lord knows I couldn't control the past 8 months. 

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I mean isn’t that what the internship is for? I’ll admit that my failure is my fault. I failed to realize how early IB recruitment started and that lack of awareness will cost me dearly for at least a year, probably more. There’s a decent chance that I will not get a job in HF unless I spend 190k on a masters. This is how the game is played.

 

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