I made a mistake. A mistake that is elementary and newbie-ish. A mistake that, if one of my end users made it, I would laugh to myself for days.
I applied for another web content writing job the other day. The pay is low, but the work seems easy, and I need to get more experience.
So I got the assignment. I worked on it. I sent it in. Waited for feedback. Got a rejection notice, with no feedback except "sorry, you aren't hired!" So I opened the email that I sent with the assignment attached.
And it wasn't the assignment! It was notes that I made at the beginning of the assigment. WTF? So I'm looking and looking for the real assignment, even though of course its too late to turn it in, I just want to figure out how I did such a stupid thing. And I find it the next day, by accident, in a temporary internet folder that didn't come up when I searched for the phrases and title. I had emailed myself the notes, and finished the piece - AND SAVED IT TO A TEMPORARY INTERNET FILE!!! Then sent the original, unfinished, idiotic notes to the client.
Always doublecheck what I send. Lesson learned.
As a result I've been sort of paralyzed for two days, wondering how I could do such a stupid thing.
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