To be angry that people are downplaying my achievement?

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I feel very upset.

I found out this week that I'm graduating with a First, only just scraped one but its 70+ nethertheless.

I got really excited and posted it on my Facebook wall, and I've had really horrible comments such as "no one likes a show off", "getting a first won't make you better at your job", "I have got a 2:1, at least I had fun during my degree instead of spending my time with my nose in textbooks", "your employer won't care".

AIBU for just wanting a bit of recognition that I've done bloody well?!?!? My partner doesn't even know what it means, how do I explain it to him?

Feeling very woe is me. Sorry

I suggest you delete their horrible comments and them then write them off as non-friends Massive achievement, it's a first whether by 1% or more! Fantastic work.

Congratulations on your fantastic result! I was so proud when I got my degree which I did myself part time and paid for whilst also working full time as a staff nurse. Think there is a British thing that you can't blow your own trumpet! Well done to you, sounds like these people are jealous, agree with others, maybe you have to unfriendly them, good luck in your career.

be very very proud of yourself,well done you xx as above igore the ignorant and horrid people

Aw chick I am sorry you have experienced such unfair negativity. I have just graduated with a First myself and I had quite the opposite experience! I'm 29 and I have studied my degree part time alongside being a mummy and working full time so perhaps I am at a different point in life, where friends and peers are more likely to be happy for, rather than jealous of, me? I hope your family are proud of you and have expressed their happiness at least? Either way let's celebrate together - we did it, and we did it in the very best way possible! Yay for us. 😄

Your friends sounds spiteful - ignore them. And, speaking from experience, employers do care about a first. It almost always gets an impressed mentioned at interviews and I graduated 6 years ago! Once, my boss later told me, it was the reason I got the job against other candidates.

Just be proud that your hard work and commitment had given you something noone can take away. Congratulations :-D

Massive congratulations! You've earned it - hold your head up high and enjoy it!

Congratulations you are right to feel pissed off. They all sound like they are envious. Bollocks to them you deserve some recognition and bloody well done. I massively dislike Facebook. People seem to post comments they would never ever dream of saying to someone face to face.

Jealousy is dangerous! True friends would be proud of you! Well done for your great achievement.

Huge congratulations, fantastic achievement. Nothing like jealousy to bring out the spiteful in people, ignore the assholes.

When I got mine 7 years ago I was over the moon by my result only to be deflated by my husband saying my success was was all down to him. He ruined my graduation day with his moodiness. I filed for divorce from the fucker 6 weeks later (I discovered he was having an affair). Regretfully my then married name is on my degree certificate.

As an aside, him having an affair was the biggest gift he ever gave me, the day after I filed for divorce I met a wonderful man who I am now happily married to.

Well done
It takes a lot of hard graft and iof course more than the average intelligence to get a first. I am over the moon with my 2:2 so I really do appreciate how well you have done.

Well done! It's a huge achievement and if I were you I'd get a plane to write it in smoke!!

I don't get being jealous of people. I get envious sometimes when people go on a really nice holiday but I'll straight up say "you bastard, I'm jealous, I wish I was going". Not harbour smouldering resentment and make spiteful comments. Children.

ignore the haters, they're just pissed at whatever. Bloody well done

Ailith you are rude. Why come on here and ignore what the OP has said. She is already fed up with people who can't just wish her congratulations. What's with the third degree

Congrats! Amazing achievement.

What a set of mean-spirited, nasty, jealous and thoroughly unkind people have been replying to your FB post. If I were you, I'd have a thorough clear-out of my so-called friends and get rid of the ones who can't be happy for someone they're supposed to care about doing a BLO*DY GOOD JOB! If I'd got a First I'd have metaphorically shouted from the rooftops too, and I truly believe my friends would have been happy and congratulated me ... when I qualified as a social worker, we had a party. These folk are NOT worth your keeping in touch with. (And as for your partner - he doesn't understand?? Are you sure he's the right one for you?) Congratulations from me, anyway - you rock!

Congratulations. They're only jealous (like me😜)

Well done x

Aw a huge congratulations!!!

I worked out what I would need to get in my final year to achieve an overall 1st and decided I basically couldn't be bothered to try

It is such an achievement, to actually push yourself that hard AND then achieve it. They are not given out willy nilly it's the very top few percent.

A couple of years ago I went to an evening out, my sisters friend was also there and mid conversation I remembered she had just graduated from her PhD. I enthusiastically congratulated her and told her how impressed I was.

My sister told me a few weeks later how appreciative her friend had been because apparently no one would comment on it or congratulate her.

WTF like why would people be so rude.

I'm going to assume you're a woman I believe this sort of shit is more likely to happen to women!!

CONGRATULATIONS

It's bloody fantastic!! Can't believe people would respond that way! What's the matter with people?!?!!!? X

Ignore them - they are jealous and being mean, they are not really your true friends. They would be pleased for you.

I am studying for a degree at the moment and a first is an amazing acheivement, you should be very proud of yourself 💐

YANBU. Personally thank anyone on Facebook who says something nice about it. Ignore the haters. It will drive them crazy. Success is the best revenge and you're already there 🙏

You did brilliantly.

Like I always say delete facebook
Work of devil

Congratulations! Who are these people commenting on your FB post? Sounds like you could do without them. 'No one likes a show off' is a horrible thing to say, everyone likes to see that their friends are doing well, unless they're not real friends. Enjoy your success and ignore the negative comments.

Congratulations! That's is a MASSIVE achievement!

The comments on Facebook from your so-called friends are just jealous and bitter. They should be patting you on the back and putting champagne in the fridge. Miserable shits.