Have you ever worked hard on something only to have nothing?

So I've been working on an important essay that I need to hand in tomorrow for one of my classes. I've been working hard on it and not a minute has passed this past weekend where I haven't at least thought about it. So naturally you'd think I'd have something written down...but I got nothing and I've given up to the point where I decided I'd rather write on Fakku about it. I've been lazy before and not got stuff done, but this time I'm trying and still got nothing.

So my question is have any of you ever worked on something (not just a paper) and put a great deal of effort into it, only to get so little achieved?

Every thing I do is like that

You haven't been working hard.

Yup. When I was in high school my mother thought it would be okay to open my bedroom window. I came home to find half of my room soaked, including three midterms and one fried ipod.

I been compiling my art and photos into a book of my work since 2010. Im still editing and rendering the files and searching for a scanner for my paintings.

Of course. As a businessman, failure happens more often than success. But I keep on trying, working on the flaws on the previous project, keep on improving it, and ultimately succeed in the end. Or just simply change your target and succeed at that instead.

Interestingly enough, I was thinking about something related to this not too long ago.

I was taking an Ethics course a few years ago and for my final paper I could choose whatever I wanted to write about, as long as I could apply the ethical philosophies I learned to it. I went through a shitload of topics, I did tons of research, but in the end, I decided that at the time, I couldn't find a topic challenging enough to write paper about. With that in mind, I explained to my professor that I did the best I could, but I couldn't write the paper because I couldn't find a topic that was worth writing about, and would accept a failing grade.

I had the best grades in my class, and the way I worked it out, based on the curriculum and the way things were graded, I would pass with a high D if she failed me for the final paper. What I didn't expect was that instead of failing me, my professor gave me an incomplete for the course, so by default, I wound up failing the class. It pissed me off at first, but now I realize that I get a chance to take the ethics course, which was one of my favorite courses, over again and, as long as it hasn't changed, I have a subject for my final paper that is not only worth writing about, it's an important social debate that I've been paying attention to for the past few years.

The moral of my story is dependent upon how serious your family invests in your education. If there's enough money set aside for you, by someone else, if you take a class you're passionate about, but you're not feeling it at the time, fail and take it again. Test the waters the first time around and fail. Then, come back and make that class your bitch.

Perhaps not hard enough.



That's an interesting approach that I partially agree with. Although I don't exactly have the funds (or time) to retake a class.

Seems like you aren't trying hard enough. At least bullshit it or something.

I've always helped the host of a party cleaning up and helping other people get through the night (even when I am drunk) but people get wasted so much they dont even remember the next day.

Procrastinate more, the inspiration comes to you in those last few hours before bed. The bullshit just comes to you, and you just throw the crap at the page, and it's magnificent

All the time, its impossible to have everything go your way 100 percent of the time

Welcome to reality!

On the flip-side, watching the ones who can grit their teeth after a failure and continue trudging along to success should give you more than enough inspiration for continuing the struggle.

All I can think of was one time when I was writing a report and the hard drive sorta went boom. So after half a day of writing it I had no means of recovering it.

However I still learned lessons, I gained experience and I now appreciate it NOT happening even more so I still got something alas perhaps not what I wanted.

Even if you feel like you have nothing, just start writing something, anything. Sometimes that helps me. And if it doesn't, then best you can do then is just make up whatever and hope it sounds like it makes sense. Happens a whole bunch of every semester.

I'm working 40 hour weeks for the next twelve months for no pay whatsoever, no accomodation/meals/travel... Yea...

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Sometimes. Just yesterday I spent the whole day (and night) baking for a special thing today at a fair, and hardly any people showed up :( All my hard work for nothing lol.

Yeah lol. This can apply to a lot of things. My last relationship of 4 years, worked so hard to make it work only to come up with nothing.

Writing poetry, taking photography (seriously I can spend all day snapping shots, get home, upload them, and just have garbage).

Playing guitar trying to invent new riffs only to record them and play them back and hear how much they sound like garbage.

Eh it's a terrible feeling indeed. T_T