On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:09:27 +0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

>
>Every term my grades got lower and lower. It was just a matter of time 
>before I started failing modules right, left and center. Fortunately the 
>course finished shortly before I arrived at that stage.
>

But you passed and got a 2:1 which is good so I don't believe you. What you said
is probably true insofar as could have got a first.

>Looking at the transcript, most of my grades were very low, except for a 
>few A+ and A* grades for subjects that had some actual technical 
>content. I guess that should be encouraging... except that these days 
>employers seem to care about project management skills far more than 
>technical ability. (And social skills rank higher yet.)
>
*Some* employers seem to care about project management skills far more than
technical ability but not all.

>> It is hard to finish projects when you don't have the motivation, we all know
>> that.
>
>Yeah, well, employers want finished items. They aren't impressed if you 
>don't finish a project because you "got bored of it".
>

True, so stop reading comics online and spending hours playing games. Finish
something.

>> Who said that you were an excellent writer and why can't you write
>> reports? That is something that comes with practice and tutelage.
>
>People here keep trying to tell me I'm an excellent writing and I should 
>go into technical writing and all this kind of thing. 

I've not read any of your technical writing only your posts here and I can't
comment about that.

>But then, some of 
>these same people seem to delight in repeatedly pointing out the 
>(self-evident) fact that I can't spell. And the number of reports at uni 
>that were down-marked for being "poorly written" is staggering.
>

People don't *delight* in pointing out that you can't spell, they are doing it
to help. I can't spell for toffee (I used to get the belt at school every week
for my spelling) so I almost always use a spell checker, for everything even
this. Appearances are important.

>>> Who the hell am I trying to kid? I'm nobody!
>> 
>> If you are nobody then why does everyone here spend their time with you?
>
>I'm really not sure sometimes. Maybe because I'm amusing or something?

Yes you are amusing but in a good way. You are liked here and would be liked
elsewhere if you got the chance to start afresh.
>
>> Don't despair things can get better only if you don't give up.
>
>I don't know if you'll understand this, but... when failure is all 
>you've ever experienced in life, it can be really, *really* hard to 
>believe that success is actually possible. Everything I have ever 
>experienced tells me that failure is inevitable. It's hard-wired into my 
>very notion of what the real world "is". It's very hard to see past 
>that. (No matter how logically "obvious" it may be.)

If I had a cure for depression I would be rich. Unfortunately I haven't. My
makeup is different so I can only sympathise and try to give advice and
encouragement.
Look, I've met you in the flesh and you are normal from the outside. Try to put
on a front and it will become second nature (I think and hope).
-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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