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nr1472

I feel I'm bad at everything?

I'm a student and started a new job today. I got sent home by my supervisor because I didn't seem to "have a clue" what I was doing.

All my previous jobs I've been bad at. I've been reprimanded at work often for "not trying" even though I DO try, I just come across as useless for some reason. I feel like I need to be spoonfed everything to get anywhere.

I'm nothing special in school - a lot of my essays and work in general is less my own words and more reconstructions of other people's points/words. I'm not creative, don't have any kind of artistic talent. I'm average at best at everything. I have trouble coming up with my own things to say and verbalising my own opinions (which are often just things I've heard or read somewhere else). I'm not great at socialising. Even my cooking cleaning etc skills are at a minimum. Even the dumb things that don't matter I'm not good at. I can't make an outfit look good without basically copying what my friends wear, I can't draw anything good without tracing (and I've been drawing for over ten years as a hobby). It sounds like I'm just really self conscious but that's the thing - I'm not. I'm just not GOOD at anything. I'm either painfully average or just plain bad. I have no talents or anything to fall back on. Everything I try I seem to fail miserably or just do enough to get by.

I'm really struggling I guess to find myself. I want to be able to make something of myself and put myself out there but nothing I do pays off. And I have tried, believe me I have, but it always seems like nothing works out. I just felt empty and melancholy all the time to the point where I feel unmotivated to even get out of bed. I'm wondering if anyone has ever been in this spot and has any kind of advice they can give me.

Posted Jan 5, 2017, 11:12 PM UTC

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