Sometimes I feel like I can’t win, If I share good news that others within my family don’t agree with i feel like I get torn to pieces. It’s too late to have an opinion on what career path I’ve chosen. If you had an opinion, it needed to be voiced in 2013 not 2023. Sure my degree might not be what you think it should have been but it was my choice at the time and i didn’t regret my choice, I enjoyed doing it, it was my student loan that I was going into debt with and i came out with what i thought would be a viable future career path. It certainly doesn’t help my self confidence when I am already knocked down by employers to constantly hear from my family in particular “what are you doing wrong?” or “why didn’t you get shortlisted for x job?” or “have you tried x way of finding a job” over and over again. At the 7 year mark of looking for a job, I know what the shortcomings of my job search are and they can’t easily be fixed without experience which is the one thing employers keep telling me I need. All I need is encouragement and keeping backhanded remarks to yourself rather than telling me when I either know what you are going to say, have heard it before or quite frankly at this point don’t care. I’m making my own MAGIC.
I'm sorry about the frustrations you're going through, but I really like the way you scrapped them. I love that sentiment: whatever you are, be you! This is a beautiful page!!
I was sad to read your journaling, but happy to see you getting it out on 'paper' and not holding it inside. I think your page is gorgeous and you have the right attitude here 'do what makes YOU happy' not what others want YOU to do. x
@Claire Grantham thank you, it was built up frustration from many years of this going on. As soon as I saw the kit (Rachel's in particular) I knew what I was scrapping about which made the journaling come easy.
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