A year and a half of applying: more than eight hundred and fifty applications, thirteen interviews, and long stretches of doubt in between — including the worry of moving to a new country alone, with visa complications still to settle. Then, at the end of it, an offer abroad.
The start date landed on the first of April, which made it hard, the candidate said, to tell whether it was real. They described the sleepless nights and the days spent doubting every step, and closed with the one thing they wanted to pass on to everyone still in it: no matter what happens, never give up.