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I keep reminding myself that, despite not being as successful as I had once hoped and been told I could be, I'm doing fine: graduated college (after 8 years), g

I keep reminding myself that, despite not being as successful as I had once hoped and been told I could be, I'm doing fine: graduated college (after 8 years), got a desk job, got married, and have a kid. I also like to remind myself that, in the old days, people like me didn't "just deal with it." People like me lived awful lives, often as addicts. Thank goodness I'm only on a drug that lets me maintain a job and relationships. >I literally got my first job out of college (several months after graduating) because the interviewer forgot to ask me my GPA! Lucky! I applied for a government job in a state that used exams. So my crappy GPA could be overlooked by good test-taking skills.

aidenn0 3y ago
> Lucky! I applied for a government job in a state that used exams. So my crappy GPA could be overlooked by good test-taking skills. I had the exact opposite experience; I was told by the test-administrator that such a high test-score combined with such a low GPA was almost certainly going to be seen by his superiors as a sign that I had cheated on the test.