Do you think some people just aren't competent and won't fit into any 2022 workplace?

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The skills that are required in so many professions these days don’t come easily or naturally to everyone and most jobs require a fairly advanced level of technological talent and a certain set of social skills that don’t come easily to everyone.

I really am not good at anything and despite being University educated I've struggled to hold down jobs because of performance issues in many jobs since I was 17. I'm 40 now and off ill but before that was doing temp work and agency jobs but just never felt right in any workplace. I'd always make a mess somehow or say the wrong thing.

AIBU to think some folk just aren't made for the workplace?

Empathy? OP is a teacher who by her own admission is not able to teach....I think all the students she's had over the years probably deserve some empathy?

Empathy? OP is a teacher who by her own admission is not able to teach....I think all the students she's had over the years probably deserve some empathy

At least she's tried to do it but appears to struggle along with her other jobs...if she didn't try and sat on benefits you'd moan she was a scrounger but she tries to work and she still gets slated. You can't win.

@Arayes you seem to have an empathy bypass.

you seem to have an empathy bypass

as do many on mn

Exactly what has happened to me on this thread. And I have tried too.

It is horrible horrible feeling to feel like you don't belong at all, like you are looking in from the outside.. like you have failed as an adult human being.

It is horrible horrible feeling to feel like you don't belong at all, like you are looking in from the outside.. like you have failed as an adult human being

I totally get this. The problem with our society is that there is such huge pressure to conform. You MUST get married, MUST have kids or if you have failed at these you MUST have a career. Ofcourse life is never so simple and some people will struggle/not be suitable with these roles or even all of these roles. They will be told then they have failed in life.