Waiting More Than a Dozen Years

[Young at Heart]

A brief update.

Both jobs went to someone else. I felt good about the interviews. Thats the way it goes sometimes.

I have been told that life is like baseball. It is a game of statistics. If you get up to the plate and take and miss at three pitches, then in the next inning, get up and miss at the next three pitches (strike out again), and then get up once more in the game and get two strikes, but hit a run, you will be batting over 300. You will be considered a hero and paid millions in the major leagues,even though your success rate is only connecting with one out of nine pitches or less. The point is that to succeed you need to "both get to the plate (i.e. interviews) and swing with your best effort (take the interview) several times before you "connect."

As long as every time you get to the plate you give it your best shot and you make sure you do what you need to get to the plate, you probably are going to do well in the long run. No one can hit a home run off of every pitch they are thrown and no one can expect to hit a run every time they get up to the plate. Life is like baseball. You just need to dust your self off and keep trying.

Good luck, dust yourself off, visualize success and you will hit a run or maybe even a home run in the not too distant future. Only if you give up will life be hell on earth.