Fear of failure.

[King Peace]

Thank you for the feedback. I am a failure at work because I can't get a job. It's been 2 years and 4 months since I had a job. I will be 51 soon. I am experiencing age discrimination as well. I never thought this would happen to me! But it has! I have a spouse and child. My spouse works. I don't want my child to have these struggles. I want my child to be successful. I am afraid... I don't know what to do anymore. I don't even want to work. How do I get retrained? Am I smart enough to get retrained?

[tina martin]

I am so sorry for your predicament. It is a tragic situation of this time. A bleak outlook for many. For some strange reason I want to blame it all on technology.

Please don't give up. Your wife is working, your child will be fine. From what I've heard friends and individual contacts are the best connections. Best wishes to you.

[JR5]

Thank you for the feedback. I am a failure at work because I can't get a job. It's been 2 years and 4 months since I had a job. I will be 51 soon. I am experiencing age discrimination as well. I never thought this would happen to me! But it has! I have a spouse and child. My spouse works. I don't want my child to have these struggles. I want my child to be successful. I am afraid... I don't know what to do anymore. I don't even want to work. How do I get retrained? Am I smart enough to get retrained?

That's horrible to hear and sadly more and more common these days. I sincerely hope things have turned around for you?

[chill1981]

If you are actually working though, I don't think you should see that as a failure. I recently dropped out of school because of a panic attack.. to me that feels like failure.. I'm wrong about it though... there's no such thing as failure.. it's just going to take me more time than someone else to finish school, and that's okay. Now I know how to deal with the anxiety better than ever.. wow listen to me.. I am not usually this positive. I've been trying to teach myself that there's no such thing as failure. This feeling comes from when I was a child, and I was trying to get my parents attention by doing everything perfectly.. I still didn't get their attention, so I continued on in my life like this till recently I was in the nursing program, and I almost killed myself with stress from trying to get perfect grades.. I hope you can start telling yourself that there's no such thing as failure.