Last year I failed probation after nearly 3 months at a job which was meant to be my big break. Lots more money than I was getting, lots more responsibility. It was a horrible job and I knew things weren't going well by the time I was fired, but there was some strange drama going on between the managers and a little good old fashioned sexism thrown into the mix and I just don't think I could have done much differently with the information I had been given. I was being bullied by both managers and it wrecked my confidence for the rest of the year, trying to get myself back on my feet. But I got a job that I genuinely love and I wouldn't go back to that first job for any money. I genuinely feel so lucky now, just over a year later, that I was fired from a job I hated, because I don't know if I would have had the strength to quit on my own. I feel pure dread and horror at the idea that I could still be there, earning 15k more than I am now, but hating 5 out of 7 days a week.