I’m not sure what subreddit to put this in but I wanted to talk about it somewhere. So I work in design and a year and a half ago I found this one woman online that does similar designs to what I wanted to do and I reached out to her, I never got a response. A few months later I was going to a design show that I knew she would be going to so I printed out work examples to show to her. She was very very rude said no design studio would touch my work and that I looked young and it was kinda bad because I was really excited to meet her. I started a job a few months after that and then around 7 months in she was hired and I was shocked. I was kinda scared at first but they put her over me and I was kinda excited because I really wanted to learn from her. It went okay for a bit and then she was really complaining that my drawing skills were bad and making fun of previous companies I worked for. I am only 23, so I am not ashamed at all over the companies I’ve done work for. Everyone’s career is a process very few people are going to start out and get like a fortune 500 company job I think a lot of people have a few shitty first jobs. But after a couple months of her being there they slowly took away every design task I had been given after doing them for like 9 months. So now I no longer work there :). It honestly was a couple months of me crying several times a week. I would show up to work in a good mood and then cry during my lunch break. Everyone else on my team pretty much has reached out to me saying they’re sorry about it but her. It kinda hurts because she was someone I looked up to so much. I just feel like I hear her voice ringing in my head saying I am not good enough all the time.