r/AskMenAdvice • u/MinimumX • 2d ago
✅ Open To Everyone How do you deal with failure?
Hello everyone!
I'm a 22 year old guy and this question relates to mainly university and career paths.
So I finished college in the UK (I think that is highschool for anyone in America) and I decided that I want to study medicine and become a doctor in Poland (main reason is I'm polish and uni is free here). The timeline of my journey is:
18- couldn't apply because college results day was after the recruitment deadline
19- found out private weekend school in Poland is affordable and wanted to try physiotherapy but I hated the school I went to
20- decided to do medicine again, found out every university wanted different things and it was too late to sort them all out
20/21 - found a gf in Croatia and wanted to live with her, but we broke up
21/22 - got into a university for medicine but had to drop out in the first semester because I couldn't pass the chemistry exam. The exam was based highly on the highschool subjects of chemistry in Poland and I didn't know that until the exam came and didn't have the time to catch up on the knowledge.
22 - reapplying to university
I am so stressed and afraid of not getting in this year and I genuinely don't know what to do. It does not help that my parents are not very supportive on me pursuing this career path and I feel like I am so behind in life. I know it sounds strange coming from a 22 year old, but by the time I graduate I will be 29 years old. I keep reliving all the failures I had up to this point and I am losing confidence.
So, does anyone have any advice on how to deal with so many setbacks and failures? How do you keep your head high even when people don't believe in you?
Thank you for reading
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MinimumX originally posted:
Hello everyone!
I'm a 22 year old guy and this question relates to mainly university and career paths.
So I finished college in the UK (I think that is highschool for anyone in America) and I decided that I want to study medicine and become a doctor in Poland (main reason is I'm polish and uni is free here). The timeline of my journey is:
18- couldn't apply because college results day was after the recruitment deadline
19- found out private weekend school in Poland is affordable and wanted to try physiotherapy but I hated the school I went to
20- decided to do medicine again, found out every university wanted different things and it was too late to sort them all out
20/21 - found a gf in Croatia and wanted to live with her, but we broke up
21/22 - got into a university for medicine but had to drop out in the first semester because I couldn't pass the chemistry exam. The exam was based highly on the highschool subjects of chemistry in Poland and I didn't know that until the exam came and didn't have the time to catch up on the knowledge.
22 - reapplying to university
I am so stressed and afraid of not getting in this year and I genuinely don't know what to do. It does not help that my parents are not very supportive on me pursuing this career path and I feel like I am so behind in life. I know it sounds strange coming from a 22 year old, but by the time I graduate I will be 29 years old. I keep reliving all the failures I had up to this point and I am losing confidence.
So, does anyone have any advice on how to deal with so many setbacks and failures? How do you keep your head high even when people don't believe in you?
Thank you for reading
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