Didn't make the cut vying for a job whose sound-of I rather loved. Bountiful initial disappointment drove a react..ion (mild pun) seeking other software jobs. You wanna know what? I fucking hate software. Sure, it's familiar and, thus, mostly easy. But, oh, the rapid onset ennui. Time to let jobs come to me. And if they don't? Hey, how about be still?
I think about the applications I've made in the past, and their outcomes has either hinged on a coin flip, I was the only applicant, or because I already knew the guy from another guy.
Don't take it too personally, just keep flipping those coins and (I dread to use this word) "networking".