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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I left a very special job in my 20s because a coworker (who ended up having a mental breakdown and leaving abruptly) told me I was horrible at it and should quit. I lasted a year after that but lost all confidence. Now as an older woman I look back on it and it sort of ruined my life. I was not bad at that job, and I should have stayed.[/quote]

Huh I had a similar experience -- unique job that satisfied me in a specific way but got bullied at work and wound up leaving. One of the women who bullied me also had some kind of breakdown and left but the other one stayed and now literally runs the organization.

I still have resentment towards those women who I think felt threatened by me and banded together to make it so unpleasant to be there that I'd leave. But since one of them went on to great success at the org I can see that I would never have been free of her combativeness and dislike. It's frustrating because that job can't be duplicated elsewhere but on the other hand leaving liberated me from these people who wanted to make me miserable.

If I have a regret it is in not leaving sooner and holding on (because I did love that job) thus spending more of my life dealing with their abuse. What I learned is that no job is ever worth your misery. My current job is not nearly as personally rewarding (and I'm not as good at it) but people are kind to me and want me to succeed. It's better even though it's not my dream.[/quote]

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