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Where to from here

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  I recently interviewed for a position with popular startup company in Australia. In my entire career, this was probably the longest interview ever. After close to 1.5 months or 7 weeks, I got the update today that I'm not getting the offer. This is, after 7 rounds of gruesome interview sessions. I wanted to document my experience, so that one day, I can look back and know that I survived this as well. :) Now, where to start. I got a notification on LinkedIn about the position and immediately applied for it. Within a day I got the call from the recruiter requesting to book in a time for the screening interview. This is round one. During the screening interview, the recruiter felt I should apply for a role higher than the one I actually applied for. So they booked me in for an interview with hiring manager. This was round 2. The interview with hiring manager went fine, and a day later I got the call to proceed with the next stage - another 3 rounds of interview session with 5 diffe...
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How odd

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 Something must be wrong isn't it. Monday I had this intense feeling of being overwhelmed. Took a day off to rest.  Then yesterday, I felt I wanted to cry for no reason.  Today I felt hopeless and exhausted.  Just a month ago I experienced the same.  Didn't help much when I had interviews to attend.  I think I really messed up this time. 
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Ups and downs

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 It's kind of weird that I've been experiencing a wide range of emotions. I'm not sure whether it's the pandemic fatigue or is just the age is catching up.  I feel happy and grateful for having my kids with me. I endured 7 months of separation when I had to leave them back in KL with my husband and mother in law to start a new job in Sydney. Grateful that I got a job to start with. It wasn't easy but the timing was right and I had to make the most difficult decision in my life so that I can pave way for something better for my children. It was worth it because I managed to relocate them just shy of 6 months before the entire world went into lockdown and everything just literally stopped for a good 2 years now. If I didn't make that decision to sacrifice 7 months of my time to be away from my kids, I would have dearly paid for it right now... Either we're stuck in separate countries or we would have never moved to Australia at all.  Now, I tell myself everyda...
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