Ah yes, rage-applying. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was the year 20xy (I am not specifying the year because I am very public with my life and you can easily investigate where I worked) and I had an absolutely horrible team leader.

She was incompetent. She was rude. She shouted at the staff and made them cry. But the head of the department had chosen her for the role of team leader (despite her lack of experience) and now she was my problem.

My former manager- the team leader’s direct manager- noticed a change in me and asked me about it. I explained to her what was going on. She was sympathetic…to a point. And then she told me that my team leader was my team leader and my options were either to support her or leave.

I was still relatively young in my career so the first thing I did was cry. I couldn’t believe that it was okay that our team leader was an awful human simply because she had the right connections. EVERYONE could see her making the staff cry and no one cared? She wasn’t even good at her job!

But nonetheless, I knew what I had to do. I had to get out. There was clearly no place for me in this department.

Desperate and full of hurt and anger, I started applying to every job that came my way. And that was when my life changed.

I was called for Marketing roles, Copywriter roles, Recruitment roles and even a really memorable Teaching Administrator role (it was clear that the guy had no intention of hiring me but their campus looked amazing). It was a major confidence boost. Although I wasn’t getting the jobs, I loved that so many amazing companies considered me. It was then that I began to think about what I called “My Exit Plan”.

I had always loved the idea of working in Marketing. Marketing was the only subject that made me feel the same way I felt for writing.

So I decided to try a Marketing short course to see if that spark was still there. It was.

And that was how I found my way into Marketing. Kinda. Well it’s a bit more than that but rage-applying was the first step.

So if you feel like you need to rage-apply for all the jobs. Go for it. You never know where you might end up.