I have an unemployed alcoholic father and unemployed schizophrenic brother, and my mother is cognitively impaired. I couldn't hold on to a job for more than two months, one said I worked too slow, others I didn't communicate enough. I have a degree in engineering and quite good at problem solving skills. But why are people always considering me as useless. I mean I've successfully completed a couple of projects on my own and have created some meaningful work... But still I feel like a punching bag for my co-workers or clients, anything that goes wrong seems like three times as bad as if someone else messes up.
I just don't have the motivation for work or energy for the critisism. I have no mentor for guidance and no reassurance that I'm actually smart and that others are wrong. I just don't know how to boost up my ego...