Not feeling like one of life's successes atm.

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I have a pgce but got pregnant promptly afterwards. It didn't go down well with management and got bullied at work.
I took some time out and recently got a job in a school as a support worker rather than a teacher as I didn't want to try to complete my training as a single mum of a small child.
One of the teachers at work told me that she used to be a bank manager but gave it up to become a teacher.
It makes me feel as she had a highly succesful career before and just glided into teaching and has secured a decent job whease I hav ebeen doing bits of teaching for years and have still to qualify. Moreover I have not yet managed to have a succesful career before teaching. I am 33 and feel quite average and a bit down.

I love dd but can't say I'm a huge fan of motherhood and my mum died this year. Plus I am still recovering from an abusive relationship that finished 10 years ago. What is it with me? I don't seem to be able to get off teh ground; let alone become a high flier and i am rubbish at the politics at work.

Sympathies. I am 10 years ahead of you with similar issues and stuck in a rut. Would it help you to determine you are going to be different in 10 years! It sounds like you have had low self worth for a very long time. It is very, very hard to be like that yet step up anddemand your equal place in the world but that is what you have the right to do. You are not less of anything, including lucky, than anyone else. You just need help with confidence. Fraid I don't have the answer to that. In the meantime, set very small goals and achieve them. That will set you on the right road.