Awaiting job decision

[Strawberry668]

Interviewed on Thursday for a role that I would love and I felt the interview went well but there is one more interview next week. So I’ll hear mid week at the latest. I’m an over thinking and going through every part of the interview in my head over and over and thinking and thinking and I struggle with the waiting part of things. Especially as I so want this job. I just wondered if anyone has any tips to stop it overwhelming me the anxious waiting.

Good luck and I'm sorry you're having to go through this painful wait!

I've been there. The same things won't work for everyone but here are two things I've found helpful in the past.

1. Give yourself designated worry time. Realistically you're not going to be able to stop going over and over the interview and worrying, but you can take this step to try to limit how long you spend focusing on the worries. In the past I've set myself a timer, eg for half an hour, and given my permission to worry and obsess as much as I want to until the timer goes off. After that I make it the rule that I've got to do or focus on something else. If my mind drifts back to the worry, I say to myself 'no, worry time is over - you can have another half hour of obsessing over it tomorrow!' I try to be gentle with myself not harsh and just guide myself back to focusing on something else.

2. More controversial and perhaps ridiculous... I once wrote a fake rejection email to myself as though I were the hiring manager. I made it as realistic and yet hurtful a rejection possible. It was amazing because it was like forcing myself to face up to my worst fear and then I felt more reconciled to the possibility I wouldn't get the job. No rejection in reality could have hurt as much as this fake one I wrote myself so it gave me armour! (I did end up getting the job in the end 😆).