Due to career setbacks beyond my control (recession as I graduated) I've ping ponged from job to job. Longest job I had was 5ys, then 3, then a few months then 3+yrs where I am now.
In all places I've felt like a square peg trying to fit into a round hole. My current hole however has squarish edges so don't feel like moving on anytime too soon.
Anyway, I ramble here... Basically no one has ever said I need to change my approach/ways of dealing with people etc or whatever. I would have expected my line managers to have had an informal meeting with me or taken me to one side and informed me if I was being a problem.
So, here I am again in a place where I feel I don't fit in. I don't feel different to any of them, we're all very similar people of a similar age. I try to join in conversation but get either ignored, talked over or interrupted. My self confidence therefore is at fucking rock bottom. I have 2 options: have this happen or sit in the corner in silence.
In meetings I'm ignored, shot down, and I'm just a bum on the seat... so I stop contributing.
I'm a team player by heart but when I'm treated like this, I think why bother? So I stop bothering.
I tend to go through cycles. I put up with it all, but it becomes too much every 4-6 weeks and I break down a little, but I pick myself up and try again.
In every place I've been, I try to be all smiles and polite, but at the end of the day they probably wouldn't miss me if I went.
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SetbackSetMeUp · 24/01/2020 21:12
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