Example Of Failure In Life

Life is full of many failures. From the moment you are able to make conscious decisions and make goals in your life, you are bombarded with failure after failure. It’s not because we are bad at reaching our goals. It is because without failure we will never strive to reach our goals. Sometimes the goals we set out to achieve will never become reality. But is failing to achieve that goal really failure? If you are able to learn and gain fruitful wisdom about said failure. I see it more as a learning experience, rather than a failure. I have had many failures in my life. But one example of what I see as a failure but a great learning experience is my decision to pursue my career in restaurant management rather than finish my degree. When I …show more content…
I developed the skills and knowledge to run a kitchen effectively. At the age of 22 I was one of the youngest persons in our whole Applebee’s franchise to have the experience to be a manager. So the spring semester of my senior year, I was offered a management position at the new Applebee’s they were opening up in Hastings. When they asked me, I was beyond excited. I said to myself “Hell yes, I’m going to take this job and become the best manager out there”. So instead of finishing up one more year of college. I decided to quit school and move to Hastings to pursue my career. That was one of the biggest mistakes I have ever made in my …show more content…
Life was perfect. I was making great money. I had a wonderful supportive family. And my job seemed to be really nice. Shortly after I had started, our management team consisting of 1 GM and 4 managers. Was altered. 2 managers had left just 3 months after the opening of the restaurant due to either poor performance or personal reasons. So a restaurant that needed 5 managers to operate effectively was only operating with 3. Corporate was basically no help and the staff consisted of college kids and adults with a history of drug abuse. I quickly learned that at the age of 22 maybe I was not fully prepared for the decisions I had made. Then after about another 2 months of operating with only 3 managers the GM just up and left and moved to Washington. So we were now running a restaurant with only 2 Managers. We split the shift into days and night. One manger during the day. One manager at night. Lucky me, being the younger manger I got night duty. So I was pulling 12-13 hour shifts every night, while trying to balance my family life and a newborn son. My mental and physical health quickly took its toll. I was exhausted, irritable, and was going into work hating it more and more each