feel confident in my new job

When I feel I’m doubting myself one of the new joiners (with little experience) will ask me a question or two and I haven’t found one I can’t answer – yet. That always makes me feel better – both that I know the answers and that they feel I’m approachable.

I’m also being passed some nasty work – not straightforward and with no precedent so I’m having to think on my feet. If they didn’t think I was capable then they wouldn’t do that.

I’m making friends (but not too close friends) with the others in my team and don’t dread going there every day.

I’m now marking this done.

My mind isn’t always on my job. I have a lot of other pretty major distractions going on and am not always giving it 100%.

I am having to do the junior stuff (even though I’m senior) to prove I can (!) and I’m not enjoying this at all and this lets my mind wander letting the distractions further in (leading to some occasional stupid mistakes). I’m not being challenged except by the sheer volume of work to be done yesterday.

We are seriously understaffed with totally unrealistic deadlines. To be able to cope with our current workload we are recruiting to get a 75% staff increase. This doesn’t allow for the new clients that the good sales team keep bringing in.

I need a challenge to thrive and to stop my mind wandering. I love getting deep into a problem or project and getting good results within the deadline. This isn’t happening at the moment.

I hope I can start enjoying my job – I loved my last role and was sorry to leave (was outsourced).

Plenty still to learn but I feel that I have made a good start… Long may it continue…

The team is friendly and I feel like I fit in well already.

The next thing is the work. OK so far but I haven’t had too much or really difficult work yet but the easy stuff is going well. I hope I can make a good mark and get promoted to the next level earlier than Jan 08 (which is their estimate) without looking like a big girlie swot and having the others hate me.

So far so good…

I didn’t want to leave my last company as I was happy and confident there. My role suited me exactly but is no longer needed. The new company has a team 5 times as large so the dynamics will be very different.

I am a loud and talkative person but there are only a few things that make me a quiet little mouse – and a new job seems to be one of them. Eeek.

I want to be settled in within a few weeks and finding my feet and friendly colleagues quickly too.

The strange thing is that I know I can do the job (it’s a slightly lower level than I was previously at but with a good and real promotion ladder) but that makes me more nervous. I know I can do it so I have no excuse to screw up but probably plenty of opportunities unless I’m careful.

the first trauma was filling in the application form, then waiting to be invited for an interview, then the actual interview itself and then waiting for the phone call!!! They said YES!!! Hooray! Now to stop feeling nervous and get on with it….