I AM NOT GOOD ENOUGH!
In this video, I'll tell you the story that led me to understand how to deal with problems. At the end of the video, I explain the two types of problems that I believe we all face and how to deal with them. I called them the "Me Problem" and the "Environmental Problem". The first problem needs a change, and the second problem just needs numbers. I hope you like this story and that it will make you think about how to deal with future problems, but let me know what you think in the comments!
My story starts in 2014, this was the year I was graduating from middle school and had to look for an apprenticeship. The true reason why I chose an apprenticeship was because I wanted to work, but there was a side reason if you will: I did not have high enough grades to go to high school – In Switzerland, in order to be admitted to high school, you need to finish your middle school with a grade of 4.75 out of 6 or above (where 4 is sufficient), I did not have that grade at all, I knew I was going to graduate with a score of around 4 to 4.5 out of 6, and so the only option I had was an apprenticeship.
I made a list of 3 companies I wanted to work at, the first one rejected me and didn’t even give me an interview, the second one did the same and the third one gave me an interview. The one that gave me an interview was the one I really wanted to work at: it was a big international company where I knew I could really develop myself and have an awesome experience.
So, I went to the interview, the interviewer asks me to sit, asks me how I was doing and why I wanted to be a civil drafter, what was it about engineering that I really liked. I told him what I tell to this day: I want to make an impact on the environment around me, civil engineering to me seems the best way to do so. He was very surprised, he said “well that’s a very good reason, would you like to come for a day of internship? We will let you look around the office, we will show you what we do, and you will be able to see if you truly like the company or not.”
I was extremely excited; it was the first time a company gave me a shot and showed me that they noticed me.
I went to the internship day, as the interviewer said they showed me everything, all the departments: the IT department, the water engineering department, the tunnelling department, the structural department, they showed me the projects that they were working on, the projects they worked on, … and at the end of the day the interviewer told me to send them an email if I still wanted to do the apprenticeship there as a civil drafter, and to send them the expected final grades as soon as I had them.
I went home, I told my family about the internship, that I really loved it and that I was so excited to start working for them.
So, around May I send them the grades: they were not very good grades, I was expected to get around a 4.5 out of 6 at the end of the school year. This were not official grades but we wouldn’t have any further exams so they were very close to the official ones I would later get. After a couple of weeks, the interviewer got back to me with an email, I was very excited, I opened the email and I was truly ready to see that they accepted me and that I could sign the contract, and I started reading: We unfortunately regret to…
I was devastated, I could not believe it, they told me that they were very impressed to see me so excited about engineering, that it showed that I truly liked it so how is it that they rejected me? I continued reading and the explanation for the rejection was “Your grades are not high enough for the standards of [name of the company]”.
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