Week 13: Celebrating Failure

Just this semester I did have a time where something did not work for me multiple times, as Thomas Edison would have said. This occasion for me was during a time where I was trying to communicate with a Raymond James advisor about me coming into their office and doing any kind of work for them that they would allow me to do for no pay. My intentions were to be around them and ask questions so that I could take a few hours out of the week to learn about the area of work that I desire to do upon graduating. There is no way to learn how to be prepared for this kind of career unless you have experience, therefore, that is what I was doing. Unfortunately, after many email attempts, we could not come up with time for me to introduce myself and come into their office.

I learned from this that people are very busy, and sometimes things really just do not work out. I know that I must keep trying even if it is with other local firms around Gainesville.

In my opinion, failure is a part of life. In sports many professional athletes will say that people don't see how good you really are by seeing you excel at something, but rather the ability to bounce back when things aren't going well. I know that this stretches far beyond the scopes of sports and well into the real world. I feel like this task showed me that hundreds of other students were able to make it through the pain of failure and the awkward interviews and the whole nine yards, so I could definitely say that this course has made me feel a little better with taking a risk.