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If you missed out on joining to work at Google and Facebook, what should you do?

11th February 2012

My answer to If you missed out on joining to work at Google and Facebook, what should you do? on Quora

Remind yourself that there will always be more opportunities, and obsessing over what might have been is a huge waste of your time.

Posted 11th February 2012 at 4:25 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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