FailedOn my third driving test, I turned right out of the test centre, reached a pedestrian crossing, attempted to run over a little old lady, was prevented from doing so by the examiner grabbing the wheel, then proceeded straight back to the test centre.
The drive home was very, very quiet. I've never felt such a complete failure.
What have you failed at?
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chthonic, Fri 5 Jan 2007, 10:21)
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being a grown up with a proper jobmany of my friends did "vocationally useless" arts/social science degrees in the 1980s, thought about it for a bit then went back and retrained as teachers/lawyers/social workers etc ... what did i go back and do? magazine journalism (in london) ... then moved home to scotland which has no magazine industry to speak of ... my first job was with a corporate communications agency that wasn't making any money ... so less than 3 months after me joining it "merged" with another agency that struggled on for another 18 months, in turn, before it went tits up because of rank bad management (leaving all staff redundant) ... at that point (20/20 hindsight) i should have moved back to london but it didn't even occur as i was attempting to "forge a life" with my then partner in edinburgh (who dumped me a couple of years later) ... over the last decade i've been scrambling a living (sometimes good, sometimes woeful) in a fairly conservative economic environment (= scotland) and i think 2007 might be the year to get out ... although i'll probably stay ... and continue to fail at being a grown up with a proper job
/load off chest is, hmmm
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