About seven years ago, I was fired from a help desk tech job at a local bank for 'bad performance'. In the exit interview he told me, "I don't think you're ready for this sort of job yet. You should try to do this sort of job again five years from now when you're ready." To this day I insist that it was his piss poor management skills that led to it (it was my first IT job and his first management job.)
These days, I'm a senior Linux engineer at a respectable company making a killer salary as the youngest on the team, without a degree. If I took his advice, I would have lost all confidence and drive. Sometimes I wish I was a bit more vindictive just so I could give that guy a strong piece of my mind :).
Never let these sorts of people influence your life negatively!
About seven years ago, I was fired from a help desk tech job at a local bank for 'bad performance'. In the exit interview he told me, "I don't think you're ready for this sort of job yet. You should try to do this sort of job again five years from now when you're ready." To this day I insist that it was his piss poor management skills that led to it (it was my first IT job and his first management job.)
These days, I'm a senior Linux engineer at a respectable company making a killer salary as the youngest on the team, without a degree. If I took his advice, I would have lost all confidence and drive. Sometimes I wish I was a bit more vindictive just so I could give that guy a strong piece of my mind :).
Never let these sorts of people influence your life negatively!