Failure Resume
Professional Failures
Undervaluing myself as an employee or asset to a company: I do not know if it is a confidence issue or if I just feel intimidated; but when I start a job or even have been working for someone for awhile, I do not know how to value myself as an employee. Sometimes, I feel intimated by my superiors. This leads to me being underpaid, and even passed up for promotions because it shows lack of confidence.
Academic Failures
Not taking advantage of opportunities: in college, I had a huge opportunity. I was awarded a brand new scholarship award, the Intercultural Scholarship Award. This award came with responsibilities. I had to maintain a certain grade point average to keep it and I had to teach intercultural awareness on campus. I was so focused on doing a good job and being the best that I overworked myself in teaching awareness, by letting my grades slip. The end result was I lost the scholarship because I was trying to prove myself to people who had already accepted me and I did not work hard enough in class, where it matters too.
Letting my personal life affect my school work: my junior and senior years of college, I had a lot of family problems back home that I thought I could handle. I missed class or didn’t pay attention and only did the basic minimum to graduate. I realize that I let my home life affect what I worked so hard for and I didn’t get the best out of the classes that I took. I will never get that time back.
Personal Failures
Quitting when times get tough: in college, a friend of mine was targeted by people who did not understand LGBT issues and rights and was victim to discrimination and even assault. At this time, I was an intercultural scholar and I had a diversity column in the school newspaper. I worked hard in fighting for her rights, on campus, and even wrote about it in the school newspaper. Because we attended a Christian university, things were a little bit different and we ended up losing the fight because if we continued, we would have been expelled. I always feel like I let her down because I never finished fighting for her. I may not be part of the LGBT community but I am an advocate and I think that being expelled for something scared me at the time.
Getting Married to Early: My husband and I were married two years after we got together, despite family warnings that it was too soon. We had lived together for one and a half years and thought that we had learned things about each other and we were in love. I would never trade my husband for the world but I think that there are a lot of things that should have been discussed, established and worked on before we said our vows. I learned that I cannot change a person, no matter how hard you try and this is becoming a major lesson in my life.
Professional Failures
Undervaluing myself as an employee or asset to a company: I do not know if it is a confidence issue or if I just feel intimidated; but when I start a job or even have been working for someone for awhile, I do not know how to value myself as an employee. Sometimes, I feel intimated by my superiors. This leads to me being underpaid, and even passed up for promotions because it shows lack of confidence.
Academic Failures
Not taking advantage of opportunities: in college, I had a huge opportunity. I was awarded a brand new scholarship award, the Intercultural Scholarship Award. This award came with responsibilities. I had to maintain a certain grade point average to keep it and I had to teach intercultural awareness on campus. I was so focused on doing a good job and being the best that I overworked myself in teaching awareness, by letting my grades slip. The end result was I lost the scholarship because I was trying to prove myself to people who had already accepted me and I did not work hard enough in class, where it matters too.
Letting my personal life affect my school work: my junior and senior years of college, I had a lot of family problems back home that I thought I could handle. I missed class or didn’t pay attention and only did the basic minimum to graduate. I realize that I let my home life affect what I worked so hard for and I didn’t get the best out of the classes that I took. I will never get that time back.
Personal Failures
Quitting when times get tough: in college, a friend of mine was targeted by people who did not understand LGBT issues and rights and was victim to discrimination and even assault. At this time, I was an intercultural scholar and I had a diversity column in the school newspaper. I worked hard in fighting for her rights, on campus, and even wrote about it in the school newspaper. Because we attended a Christian university, things were a little bit different and we ended up losing the fight because if we continued, we would have been expelled. I always feel like I let her down because I never finished fighting for her. I may not be part of the LGBT community but I am an advocate and I think that being expelled for something scared me at the time.
Getting Married to Early: My husband and I were married two years after we got together, despite family warnings that it was too soon. We had lived together for one and a half years and thought that we had learned things about each other and we were in love. I would never trade my husband for the world but I think that there are a lot of things that should have been discussed, established and worked on before we said our vows. I learned that I cannot change a person, no matter how hard you try and this is becoming a major lesson in my life.