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I feel the sudden urge to flaunt my failures and shortcomings on this website in the form of rejection letters from publications and places of employment. It may be indulgent, masochistic, and most probably pointless but so is blogging.

Let’s start off with the most recent. Today I applied via email for a part-time “contract” position at the Musculoskeletal Clinic as a medical writer. The reply broke a record for the speediest rejection thus far (10 minutes). In a way that’s great and efficient, but in another way, I must have been so obviously not the right person for the job, that of a science writer, I wonder what my fancy education in science writing is actually worth–10 minutes of consideration?

Dear gillt,

Thank you for applying to the Medical Writer position. I have reviewed your CV. Unfortunately your profile does not correspond to our criteria as we are looking for someone with extensive clinical experience.

I forgot to mention in my resume that I was a human guinea pig on numerous studies and therefore have clinical experience from the “other side” of the examining table.