Some real life things*

So, I found out that I wasnt gonna end my internship at the same time as my friends because I needed to show more improvement.. I had a feeling but wow its a horrible feeling

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    I try not to dwell on it because everytime I do it makes me cry 😭😭 this internship has been going on for too long and i just want to be done but the universe has other plans :'(

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    Don’t worry you’ll be fine. We all have to experience bump in our professional life once in a while. Just think that ‘ thank God I experience it early in my career. I will learn from this’

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      I can absolutely second this – I’ve been there. It sucks to get knocked down early in your career, but you rise up so so much stronger. For me (without getting into details) it used to hurt to think about my failures, and first I cried. Then I would feel sick about it – literally anxious to the point of sickness. But now, now I look back and realize that failure made me better today. Without that I would never have known what I had in me. Now when I fall or fail, I know that I can get back up again.

      And, yes, it sucked at the time. The way you feel is valid. It’s OK. I’m so sorry you have to go through this and feel like this. But I promise you, one day it will be fine. A small blip in your past. And you’ll be twice as strong for it.

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        @snarkyjellyfish u make me cry!!! Thank you, i needed this 😭 i wish I knew what I had in me 😭

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          The most successful people I know are the ones who were told they were never going to make it and stayed in the game to prove them wrong.
          Fighting.

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          You are going to be fine. I’m glad I could help. I lost a motion in court yesterday, and three years ago I would have been beating myself up over it for a long time and feeling dumb. But time and experience has taught me to just shake it off and move on. It still sucks, and I still wish I’d done better, but honestly, the only way to get here is experience. It takes all those times of feeling sad and low (and sometimes feeling dumb, even though we are not) to learn that life is gonna throw sh*t at us and we’re still gonna keep going. I’m rooting for you, and I hope you feel better soon. Take a bit of time to feel what you need to feel, but don’t let it eat at you. Fighting!

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    Oh, here’s a hug. That stinks man. Sometimes you just have to cry, and yell, and stomp your foot (at least I do anyway) and then pick yourself up and keep going. It stinks but when you are done with your internship you can be done with confidence….?

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      HUUUUG* confidence… boy, i wish for the day i can say im confident 😭 im a ball of anxiousness and insecurity and gosh i wish i wasnt like this

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        Here is my thought on confidence: you wont know that you have it until you have to use it. Out there. In the world. Dude, IRL I am a legit basketcase. Its fine, I tend to introduce myself to people like, Hi I’m isa, Im a disaster dont expect too much. And they laugh because they think Im kidding. But Im not. I 100% think that Im a disaster. But….ask me anything, anything at all about early childhood literacy (especially something that I dont agree with?) and HOOO BOY, I can and will talk your ear off. And the second Im dont, Im hiding in a corner, trying to catch my breath because it was a lot. That is going to happen to you–but hopefully without having to run and hide after. Someone is going to ask you something and you are going to rattle off an answer without stopping to think about it, without beating yourself up over whether its the correct answer, without hiding in the corner and replaying every word you just said. Because you’ll know that you’re right. And later that day or that week that moment will come back to you and you’ll realize what happened. The confidence and ease that you had answering that question and you’re going to go HOOO BOY I AM CONFIDENT (in this one thing). And then it grows. And grows. And grows.
        I dont know how people become confident in like…life. And their decision making process. But when you put in the work—and you totally are, even if you have to extend your internship–confidence in the fact that you know what the heck you are doing? Is going to come for you.

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