The day of my interview also happened to be my first time actually being at Wesleyan, following a red-eye flight and a layover in Chicago. I had an interview! I wouldn’t get my hopes up too high, though, remembering Sweetgreen’s painful rejection a month earlier. Once again, I received a single response from Neil’s Donuts. I spent a few afternoons switching between Google Maps and my email, then sat back and waited. At that point, I had given up on making money over the summer, but come August, I was once again determined.Īfter looking through on-campus jobs on Handshake and seeing that many required resumes and cover letters, I decided to play it safe and apply to jobs off-campus as well.
I received one response (from Sweetgreen), and then got a rejection email three weeks after my interview. Living 50 minutes from my high school and keeping up with a constant stream of homework, volunteering, school newspaper, and so on, I never worked in high school.Īfter graduating, I applied to jobs at ice cream shops, salad bars, yoga studios, and cafés in my neighborhood in Los Angeles, and was faced with a slew of nothing. The days of using my parents’ money to go out for lunch with my friends or buy a new sweater would be over. I have always known I would work throughout college.
