TIFU: By getting kicked out of the Bar exam, marking 2 years after graduating and still not being able to practice.

I graduated Law School in 2020, and was part of the first class of students to get hit with Covid. No one knew what we were doing. There's no national board regulating the bar exams, they're done state by state and only administered twice a year in July and February. Thus begins my 2 years of chaos.

For the July 2020 exam Texas decided they were going to administer online ( after a ton of waffling and State Bar zoom meetings where members actually fell asleep). The process they described did not inspire confidence. You were supposed to take it somewhere you set up yourself and record yourself the entire time. Any lapse in recording or "suspicious behavior" would get your test invalidated and could result into an ethics investigation. The tech they were using was also a consistently buggy mess. Because of this I elected not to take it, i didn't want to put my fate in the hands of this slapped together set up.

So i get ready for February 2021. I get a job, working full time with a Private Investigators office. Because my wife is a medical resident i'm also taking charge on the homefront with our 1 year old. My life is work, kid, study for months. I go part time to try and make sure i can study enough but she gets a long string of nightshifts and it makes it almost impossible. Then the test day rolls around and with it comes the big freeze. I lose all power and water .My son is crying and shivering and hungry, and i have to scramble to find somewhere we can go. As the family of medical staff we're able to stay at a hotel near the hospital she works at. Again the whole state in in upheaval, they schedule a March Makeup exam but my house was badly damaged in the freeze and i have to relocate while it's being repaired. I'm not ready anyway, i'm just tired and beat down.

I register for July 2021. I'm still working full time at the PI, with the commute through city traffic it's 10 hours a day. The job is getting worse, people are quitting because the pay sucks and the boss is getting in the way of everything. He won't do anything to deal with clients who stiff us, wont replace people we need, and his idiot son keeps thinking he has some kind of authority in the office. I come in one day early and find him with a bleeding headwound. He had had a stroke and passed out, hitting his head on the curb, He refuses to let me put him in an ambulance. I want to quit but we need to money. I keep grinding and by the time test day comes around i feel pretty ready. I finally sit it for the first time. It's long and grueling but i finish. I check my scores with my friends and i've missed the cut off by 6 points. I'm fucking devastated so i finally make the hard call. I quit my job and study full time.

By now my wife has gotten her Attending job offer in Oregon. So to kill two birds with one stone i register there for Feb 2022. I grind. I do everything i can to get ready. My wife's schedule lightens up and I bust my ass. Hundreds of hours of prep, thousands of dollars on study programs and registration fees. I finally feel set. I'm finally going to be done. I get on a plane and land in Portland, go to take the test and give them all my identifying information. They pull me aside. They say there's a problem with my Vax card. Anyone who was fully vaccinated prior to 8/12/2020 needs a booster. I was vaxxed on 8/10/2020. I dont have a booster. I knew i had to be fully vaccinated but i thought i was. They tell me i have i have to leave. I freak out, i call the proctor a motherfucker, i scream at him in a room full of test takers. I leave my laptop behind and storm out. I've taken covid seriously the whole time, my whole family has. Even in my bullshit little conservative corner of Texas. I thought i had everything i needed. I thought i was finally done. I broke down in tears and sobbed outside the test room. The proctor brings me my laptop and i apologize. He forgives me. I go back to my hotel room and write this while i drown my sorrows in youtube videos.

TL;DR: Fucked up and missed a vaccination detail, freaked out and was ejected from the bar. Have to wait another 6 months to take it again after 2 years of delays already,

Edit: To those people pointing out it isn't the proctors fault, you're right. The sub isn't called, today i made a great decision. My action towards them were not appropriate. Less than an hour after leaving i wrote an apology email. They responded to assuring me that they did not have any negative feeling towards the incident, and did not consider my outburst indicative of any issues with character and fitness.