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Default Apr 25, 2019 at 09:58 AM
 
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Originally Posted by Fuzzybear View Post
I’m guessing I’m the only person here who has ever screwed up at work...

The worst one was when I was 17..

It was something that I obviously wasn’t interested in or “suited” to

If I had had parents they wouldn’t have “encouraged” me to apply for that job......

I Should Always Define Myself as Worthless for not being good at that job and being sacked
My first non-job/job was as a volunteer in the grade school cafeteria when I was in grade school.....simple task.....keep the food dishes there for the kids to take. It moved too fast & I was always running behind. Way too stressful. Too long ago now to remember the details but just remember I didn't do that for long. Great start at a work attempt.

I was 17 or 18 my first real job. I was a music major & some music guy (in the 70's bafore computers) was writing a music correspondence course. Turned out I didn't know what he needed. Did some other flunky tasks for him till he tried to cheat me on the money he said he would pay for the task. We had a show down....I won!!!!....but would NEVER do any more work for him after that.

While going to college I decided to learn data entry so I could earn pretty good money to pay for my education. I had always typed fast & liked technical. Good first job but working 6pm to 6am then going to college classes after that was way too exhausting. Got another data entry job with a paint supply warehouse. It was actually successful & I actually got to know the IBM guys that supported & programmed their little computer system. One day I really made a fool out of myself though. My machine had worked the night before when I left. Next day I couldn't get it to come on. Tried everything I could think of then called IBM service. They came out....turned out it seems the cleaning crew had moved the machine & unplugged it so they could plug in their cleaning equipment....the service guy gave me "the look" & said "it doesn't work if it's not plugged in". I was embarassed I hadn't thought of that possibility....but definitely a learning experience I never have forgotten. When something isn't working now first thing I check is power cord.

My degree career as a computer design engineer went pretty well until I needed a fill in job until the other company got their follow-on military contract. I worked at this small company....honestly now I can't even remember what they did. I was in constant conflict with their way of doing things & was not quiet about it. Quite a few of the others agreed with me. I think I maybe worked there 4 months before I left....& the others left right after me.

That's life....some companies are a fit....others aren't.

I went back to the company that got the contract. Many of the guys I had worked with before others different. Some issues but dealt with. When the contract was finished I had a hard time finding a position because aerospace was crashing. I knew I was bad at calculus & one position needed that. Thought I would try the policies & procedures group even though I was much better at technical. It was a miserable fit & I struggled to get used to it & perform well let alone know what I was doing. Fumbled my way through. Everyone in the group was REQUIRED to put together a proposal to present at the national symposium for aerospace policies & procedures. I pulled out all the buzz words from documents they had given me.....threw them up on the air & then tried to arrange them in some fashion that sounded good. I had NO IDEA what I was talking about. Go figure..right before Christmas break my proposal was the first one they had accepted to be presented. I totally lost it over the Christmas holiday & kept calling in sick rather than go back after the 1st of the year. We had a major earthquake in our area that destroyed the roads & the valley I had to drive through to get to work. I ended up trying to go back for 2 days (riding with my neighbor) I totslly couldn't function & went out on medical leave of absense. Lol.....perfect timing not to do the presentation. I had no idea at the time what I was experiencing was a total breakdown that ended up landing me on permanant disability for depression & anxiety. Can't screw up a position more than that

Yes.....many of us go through bad experiences in the work force. Have learned a lot from every bad experience & even more from the good ones. All part of life.

Lol....I never listened to my parents encouragement or discouragement because I didn't think they knew anything anyway.
If I had listened to my dad I NEVER would have gone to college & got my degrees. I sure had no desire to continue living like my parents & I sure didn't want to marry someone to create my status I knew I could earn for myself with lots of fumbling & hard work because no one in my family had ever gone to college or gotten a degree....so I had no mentoring to refer to & had to figure it all out for myself

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