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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2012-07-15 03:17 pm

[ SECRET POST #2021 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2021 ⌋

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Re: What's your job

[personal profile] kallanda_lee 2012-07-16 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe people are telling you you can achieve because they can see you're smart while you refuse to see that in yourself.

Do you think everything comes easy to everyone else?

I dropped out of 2 high schools, and eventually ended up graduating with my country's equivalent of a GED.

I went to college even though I had a shrink specifically tell be I wouldn't be able to because I had some serious issues.

In college I flunked a year and I had to redo it because two teachers basically hated my guts and didn't think I was a "team player". But I took that as a chance to take different subjects the next year.

Then after I graduated I haven't been able to hold a job for longer than 6 months.

Trust me, I know about failure. I know much more than I'd like. But I know that believing that you're stupid never fixed anything.

Re: What's your job

(Anonymous) 2012-07-16 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
This. I have a college degree and three years later I still don't have an actual career job. I went two years being unemployed after I graduated, had to move back in with my parents, before finally managing to scrape enough together to move to a different part of the country where the economy wasn't quite so bad. Since then I've been working two jobs pretty consistently and while I do excellent at my current job and love it, I still only make $9 a hour and its seasonal so once it ends I go back to making minimum wage and have to scramble to find a second winter job in order to support myself.

A lot of life is simple perseverance. I dropped several of my college classes and struggled A LOT in college but I managed to pull through and graduated with a 2.9 with only having to take an extra semester and a few summer classes (which were required anyway).

Point is, people with degrees will still know a great deal about failure too so saying, "You have a college degree so you don't know what it's like to fail" is a gross overstatement.