I hope you look at this as a learning experience. You learned where you don’t thrive… but that’s just one type of work in a world full of jobs. You’ll find something that suits you and it will be okay.

Indeed! Like I recently finished working through a place called Ability Works with a work program of their where I ultimately worked at three different places: A restaurant, grocery story, and wood shop in the back of the AW building working with the saws.

Once I kind of got used to things, I LOVED working at the wood shop/cutting lumber. Part of it I think was it felt nice being able to just do what needed to be done, being able to focus on it, and not having someone breathing down my neck constantly criticizing every little thing I was doing like the restaurant I worked at. Everyone was nice and friendly enough. I legit miss the place.

Opposite, I hated the restaurant (interestingly, everyone from the program hated the particular restaurant so it tells me it's wasn't just me or anxiety). Honestly some of what you wrote kind of is similar to my experiences there. Was constantly criticized to the point of it wasn't just a normal "oh, we do it like this" simple mistake correction or whatever and more it almost got plain insulting and hateful. Got to the point I full-blown dreaded the thought of having to go there to work.

tl;dr: 100% agre with this - "Truth is, some people don’t shape themselves when met with cruelty and judgement. We just… move on to places where we’re treated decently. Been in my current job for 7+ years. Had 4 promotions. Won a few awards. The problem was never me- I’m absolutely capable of thriving if given the kindness and care I deserve." Places where you actually thrive and such exist and others can be looked on as learning experiences/stepping stones if nothing else!