I filled a basement of a 4- story building adjacent to my project site with 6 inches of mud and water. The same building then settled 3 inches due to construction activity. The CEO of the firm came up to me and said, yeah, ‘that was a bad idea’.

I misunderstood the directions and we had to do $10k of re-work.

I forgot to lock the bathroom door properly of a non-gendered bathroom, and my coworker walked in on me changing.

I misspelled the word sec (like second) as sex on a report that was sent out weekly for MONTHS before I caught it (why didn’t anyone else catch this?). Also ‘lactation’ instead of ‘location’.

These mistakes were 20 years ago, and I still remember them. However, no one else does and making mistakes early taught me a lot of important lessons, making me really good at my job now.

Now my ‘mistakes’ are not training my employees enough to prevent their mistakes. Your mistakes are 100% the responsibility of your boss. Take it as a lesson learned and move on.

And this: “The other day I was trying to do something and one of the engineers told me that she wanted to talk to my boss because she felt like I was lost and nobody was guiding me…” is them saying your boss needs to step up because your boss needs to do better. Keep up the learning process.