No kidding: More than 100 rejections. Grants, journal articles, fellowships—you name it, they’d been denied it. Being in the social strata where your reject

No kidding: More than 100 rejections. Grants, journal articles, fellowships—you name it, they’d been denied it. Being in the social strata where your rejections are effectively failed subsidies is not really the place to complain about how hard done by you are (I'm in the same class). I'd be much more interested in something written by eg a salesperson who sees constant rejection and has to handle it live, vs some academics emailing in applications and then having a toga party when they are not successful. My advice to anyone who identifies with the article is to get out of a academia for a while to change your perspective. There is a whole world out there