I think what did it for me was the realization that nobody could do anything about it but me.

There's all these people (for me, including family) with all their own freaking opinions and they just don't matter unless I let them.

I had to just dig in and do what I knew I needed to do. I couldn't trust anyone else for that. Still made some mistakes but that's how we learn.

With age comes giving less of a damn what others do or think.

I meant to include with my last post, toward the end of my job, one of the complaints about me was that I was "intimidating" !! I actually said out loud "Cool, why I have spent so much of my life feeling intimidated?"

Try to champion yourself and be your own hero.
stephanie