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    Moving past anxiety when applying for jobs?

    I know this is a problem many have faced, I've faced it before but I'm really struggling now.

    My "career" has been a bit scattered. I went to college for speech pathology, but didn't get into grad school and it wasn't what I wanted to do anyway. So I went back and finished out another bachelor's in business. Took the first job I got after graduating, which is just a research admin job. I actually do enjoy it but the pay is not great and there really isn't much opportunity for advancement. I do get good benefits, and one of those is the chance to take classes for free, so I was taking courses in college student development hoping to go into new student services or academic advising. But, that field has a high attrition rate because of high demands and low pay, so now I'm rethinking even that.

    I have some experience with technical writing as I've written several manuals for my current position, so I figured I'd try to get some hits on like Upwork doing some freelance gigs and try to build a portfolio. But of course I keep thinking "I can't do this". I'm so afraid that people are just going to laugh me right out of the interviews. I had two messages this morning, one was asking for a writing sample (which I provided) and the other wanting to set up an interview, and I responded but I am terrified.

    I have a tendency to get really spooked and go into avoidance mode and obviously that's not good. Any tips on how to deal with this?
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    Re: Moving past anxiety when applying for jobs?

    I just said yes to an interview in about 30 minutes! Currently internally (and externally) freaking out.
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    Re: Moving past anxiety when applying for jobs?

    Oh Poppy! Hope it goes really well.

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    Re: Moving past anxiety when applying for jobs?

    Thanks, Catkins. It went really well actually, but that's almost scarier to me! She admitted she had considered me for more of a post-editing thing, but after speaking to me was "impressed" and was very interested in my ability to do the writing. That's an awesome thing, sure, but now I'm feeling like I will just be a big disappointment if she does reach out (she's talking to others so said she'd reach out in a few weeks).

    She's been a tech writer for 20+ years and others on the project have been so for longer. She said she liked that I had less experience so would be easier to "shape" but ugh, I feel like such a poser.
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    Re: Moving past anxiety when applying for jobs?

    That does sound good.

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