You've sent your resume to a hundred jobs and been rejected a hundred times. You were certain that you were a prime, or at least qualified, candidate. Yet, you get the same response: we'll keep your resume on file should you qualify for any future positions. 

With every resume you send out, you ask yourself, "so this is it?" Your career journey is about to start and a new life will introduce itself to you very soon. But... that day doesn't come. 

At this point, you'd rather be engaged in a fatal battle with a wolf than a dejected elk, starving in the winter.