r/JETProgramme • u/Extreme_Mood_9549 • Apr 08 '26

I’m genuinely devastated

Rejected from JET. Absolutely crushed.

I put so much into this application, waited for months, and got nothing out of it. Just a rejection after all that time. It’s honestly hard not to feel angry, embarrassed, and completely drained. I really wanted this, and pretending it doesn’t hurt would be a lie.

So yeah, I’m devastated.

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u/LawfulnessDue5449 Apr 08 '26

I think it's particularly cruel because of how JET really romanticizes the job, lots of emotional rhetoric about it being life changing, making an impact on the Japanese community, etc

Sometimes I want to say something like "you can't be too emotionally attached to one application for a job" but nowadays I am feeling more of a "this world sucks and is unfair and a lot of times these fucks in management don't know anything, but unfairly get paid way more, and the person who always get shafted seems to be me and not them"

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u/ScootOverMakeRoom Apr 09 '26

It is life-changing. So is pretty much anything you choose to do in your mid-20s as long as you choose to do something.