I wonder, sometimes, if a necessary part of drive and commitment might be faith. If we equate our 'self' with the job or interview, does that diminish us as a person when we lose 'this round'?I know, as I have looked for work, that I feel poorly after a failed interview. My egoism seems to carry me onward, with faith in myself and the Lord, past these obstacles. I always seem to be able to say, and truly feel, "It wasn't right. It wasn't my time. It isn't the Lord's plan for me today."I don't know why I feel this way or do these things. Maybe my parents, the eternal, infernal optimists, raised me with a deep sense of self. Maybe I don't 'see' things like others do. Even when unemployment checks have run out, and interviews suck, I still push onward. One negative event is just that. Even a string of negative events are truly just single events. Each one has different 'actors' and different situations. No string of catastrophes is the responsibility of one individual.