Can everyone please share some of their worst failures?

I just failed an exam. That I feel quite bummed about. Apart from being average at best at my work...
Anyway...
Please share your worst failures. I want to feel less alone.

Sorry if this offends anyone. I'm just tired of people pretending that life is so perfect when it isn't. It can be perfect in certain aspects, but not all.

That being said, if you do have a perfect perfect life, please scroll past, I don't want horrible critical comments. I just want to feel less alone. That's all.

Thank you for understanding.

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1490wayb · 56-60, M

losing\layoff my job after 24 years with same company. a blessing in disguise

HoochieTheClown · 51-55, F

@1490wayb As far as companies are concerned, even someone with decades of service is no more important than some id*ot who wandered in off the street just today who is looking for a job.

The way I see any job is - if I am working today, it means I have a job today. Yesterday and tomorrow don't really matter.

Good thing with that mentality is - we don't go into any job thinking it is going to be some long-term career.

1490wayb · 56-60, M

@HoochieTheClown it turned out well for me

HoochieTheClown · 51-55, F

@1490wayb It is kind of a relief when we leave an old job.

I left my last one because I got tired of the bull. I had been wanting out, and one day before a two week vacation I got chewed out over something, and they were wanting to put me in a different dept (lateral move) but I thought, "Well maybe now is the time to announce my quitting."

1490wayb · 56-60, M

@HoochieTheClown AMEN!! my last job i gave 4 days notice and said...you need me, BUT i dont need you HAHAHAHA

turningthekeys · 31-35, F

@1490wayb but I bet you're amazing

1490wayb · 56-60, M

@turningthekeys yes i was. i was much needed in all my positions. then a new door opened for me each time i moved on. it was amazing how my career unfolded