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“Because behind your anger and jealousy is passion, and even further behind it is fear, and these very strong feelings are what you’re going to need to be persistent and unrelenting and succeed at and love what you do.”
― Jennifer Romolini, Weird in a World That's Not: A Career Guide for Misfits, F*ckups, and Failures

“Professional identity, in the beginning, can feel like a too-big suit you’re trying on, an other self that you are trying to portray, like you’ve Being John Malkovich’d into a PROFESSIONAL PERSON when inside you feel like a vulnerable kid.”
― Jennifer Romolini, Weird in a World That's Not: A Career Guide for Misfits, F*ckups, and Failures

“Sometimes your career identity unfolds over years, the path twisting and turning as you learn more about both yourself and the working world. Sometimes, after decades doing something else, your brain cracks open, and you know you do not want to be a dental assistant anymore and instead need to become the world’s greatest cartoonist. And sometimes finding what you should do with your life starts simply with having the courage to try something else.”
― Jennifer Romolini, Weird in a World That's Not: A Career Guide for Misfits, F*ckups, and Failures

“But much as “meant to beâ€� love stories about “the oneâ€� fill us with unrealistic expectations about what marriage and finding a partner are supposed to look like, finding your career path doesn’t always happen this way, and imagining that it will or should can leave you feeling anxious or paralyzed, wanting to crawl into a ball and hide under the bed. It can make you feel like you shouldn’t even try.”
― Jennifer Romolini, Weird in a World That's Not: A Career Guide for Misfits, F*ckups, and Failures

“Waiting tables became the foundational education for everything I’d do in my professional life. The constant multitasking, the precision necessary to execute a meal, learning to perfect my timing and collaborate with a team—these were lessons I’d carry with me for years, and use even today.”
― Jennifer Romolini, Weird in a World That's Not: A Career Guide for Misfits, F*ckups, and Failures

“There are clues about your professional identity, what you’ll love and eventually be great at, hiding in even your most seemingly defeated and underachieving times.”
― Jennifer Romolini, Weird in a World That's Not: A Career Guide for Misfits, F*ckups, and Failures

“And it’s important to note here that every single thing you do, including whatever it is you’re doing right now (Are you lying on the floor watching Friends reruns? That counts.) will have meaning later on. You shouldn’t dismiss any of your experiences as insignificant, even if they are not conventional successes.”
― Jennifer Romolini, Weird in a World That's Not: A Career Guide for Misfits, F*ckups, and Failures

“For the first time, I realized that you’re not necessarily as doomed as you think you are, even when you’re up against a wall and it all seems hopeless, a revelation I’ve turned to in seemingly hundreds of situations since.”
― Jennifer Romolini, Weird in a World That's Not: A Career Guide for Misfits, F*ckups, and Failures

“I didn’t really even understand where my body was in space. I was a sensitive, awkward overthinker with zero chill; I never met a chair I could not manage to fall out of, a sidewalk I could not trip upon, a person waving at someone else at whom I would not mistakenly wave back.”
― Jennifer Romolini, Weird in a World That's Not: A Career Guide for Misfits, F*ckups, and Failures

“Your up-until-this-point failures and self-doubt mean nothing unless you let them stand in your way.”
― Jennifer Romolini, Weird in a World That's Not: A Career Guide for Misfits, F*ckups, and Failures

“You will spend 90,000 hours of your life working. That’s more than you will spend doing anything else except sleeping. And you know you owe it to yourself to make those hours the most meaningful that they can possibly be. You know you can’t resign yourself to a listless job. You don’t want to spend your one life grinding out work you care little about, a sad office-humor cliché. You’re here because you want more out of your career, even as you’re facing a stupid-tight and ever-shifting job market, nagging self-doubt, the challenges of rampant sexism and racism in the workplace, a persistent wage gap (particularly for women of color), a lack of precedent for female leadership in most careers, a lack of mentors, and mansplaining men everywhere you look. You’re here because you’re tired of feeling quite so delicate, one professional rejection away from emotional cataclysm, a floor puddle of Chunky Monkey and Netflix. Because you want to get stronger and more sure-footed. Because you don’t want to be tripped up by small things like what to say in an e-mail, and big ones like how to ask for a raise. Because you don’t yet know when you need to stand up for yourself and when you definitely don’t need to stand up for yourself. You’re here because you haven’t realized yet that you’re not alone, that even your heroes think they are impostors, that we all think we don’t deserve to be here, we all believe, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that we are irrelevant, incompetent trash people, and soon THEY ARE ALL GOING TO KNOW. You are here because no matter how nasty the self-talk and shitty programming that’s intermittently popping off in your brain, the voices that tell you you’re lazy, untalented, the worst, you need to find empathy for yourself, you need someone to tell you how you are feeling is normal. That you belong. That you CAN do this. Because you can.”
― Jennifer Romolini, Weird in a World That's Not: A Career Guide for Misfits, F*ckups, and Failures

“How I found the color of my particular parachute was by force, by taking a hard and honest look at my sadness and insecurity, what made me the most pissed off and envious, the things that I wanted to be so badly that I seethed.”
― Jennifer Romolini, Weird in a World That's Not: A Career Guide for Misfits, F*ckups, and Failures