Dear LFTP: rejected for the job, lost my vision

• Dear LFTP: After a humiliating job rejection and losing my sense of direction at 25, how can I find my way again?

A 25-year-old writes that he was rejected for a job that would have become a career after telling everyone it was in the bag; humiliated and shaken, he says he knew what he wanted in middle school and has lost his vision since. The hosts advise: stop running your mouth before the offer is signed, pray for God's different plan, and know you can reinvent yourself — people do it three or four times now. The middle-school nostalgia gets deflated with a Batman confession and the Secular answer: learn from the mistake, consider career counseling and aptitude tests at a community college, and keep the next candidacy quiet until it is official.