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1665574 No.1665574 [Reply] [Original]

>be me
>get my first job after graduating from college
>set up to fail from day 1 by given a project with unrealistic expectations no one else wants to do
>fail
>get fired
>can't get any other job because former employer won't give me a good reference
>career and life ruined

Any similar stories?

>> No.1665661

>set up to fail from day 1 by given a project with unrealistic expectations no one else wants to do

Read as: I was too lazy and unmotivated to meet expectations so i let myself fail and blame all my problems on everyone else

>> No.1665663

>>1665574
Just leave that shit off the resume dude, and start fresh. Make sure the expectations for the role match your abilities or exceed by just a little

>> No.1665677

>>1665574

IKTF bro. I took a "senior" bank job without knowing the bank was failing and the data systems were trashed. They wanted a three month fix for the entire thing. I just walked away.

Just keep grinding. My current employer didn't even check my references.

>> No.1665753

I went through 5 jobs after college.

Then I finally found the right one. Gonna make 60k this year and it's a pretty good job.

>> No.1665951

>>1665663
I know but i was with that employer for almost a year. I learnt a lot of skills I can't just exactly write off...

>>1665753
shit dude

nice job

>> No.1666562

>>1665753
In how long anon? I'm about to jump to my second job after graduating in May

>> No.1666566
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1666566

>tfw you lose 60% of your life savings in the /rgt. threads

>> No.1666571

did college part time from from 2009 to 2014, never held a full time job because of it. dropped out because i couldnt figure out how to get a degree, had bad grades from anxiety.

ive made probably 20,000 dollars in the past 3 years and im now 27. had my first full time job that lasted longer than 4 months but i made ~7/hr avg there so...

does this get any better

>> No.1666573

>>1665951
jesus fuck you are retarded
put some friends number as reference

>> No.1666575

>>1665951
What was the really hard, impossible project?

>> No.1666588

Take a job in chemical sales working full time at a paper mill, 4 months into the job the mill shuts down. Company I sell chemicals for tells me they will keep me on.....2 months later I get pulled into a "performance review " and was terminated. Boss felt bad and 2 months latter I find a job 2000 miles away and in the middle of nowhere. Take the job 2 Years later I make 80k perror year, a year after that get transfered to Oklahoma and I am making 95k and get a company truck. If gets better work hard don't give up.

>> No.1666602

>>1666562

It was almost 3 years.

In college they don't teach you how to get a job, how to act, what's fair, and how to find the thing that you'll be happy doing.

That took me 3 years of trial and error.

>> No.1666611

>>1666571
Man, I work ~20 hours a week at a church doing security and moving furniture for the different large bible study/english lesson classes and I fear that this is going to be me. I'm 23 and I just can't fucking make it through college even though I've already blown so much money on it.