MARTHA
“I studied law. I had big dreams when I was studying. I knew what I wanted to do and I worked hard to get good marks. But after graduating, I couldn’t get a job, or even get a role as a paralegal. They thought I’d want to be a lawyer so they didn’t even look at me for any other role, but they wouldn’t offer me
a role as a lawyer either. What could I do?”

Martha is a law graduate who is not working in her field. Martha found difficulties finding a job as a lawyer; she met rejection after rejection with stoicism, but eventually, she cracked. She developed a habit of expecting the rejection before it even came, and she became angry and frustrated with
her situation.

Martha was finding things difficult. She worked in a variety of roles, ma...

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