Pickle, what is your bad attitude about? A negative, self-defeating attitude toward life in general? Toward job interviews in particular?


I beat myself up for days for every possible less than perfect response I made during the interview. Then I discovered that I had overdrawn my checking account for the second time this year, once again because I stupidly forgot to check whether an electronic deposit was actually in the account. It wasn't -- what I thought was the paper proof of deposit was actually a check!

Finally, I started putting back together my book shelves, which I have just rebuilt, and seeing the mess start to get cleaned up is nice and gave me a small flush of relief from all this self-criticism and pain.