Also, Jess, a warning--whenever I start a new job i feel fine for a little while--I'm new, no one expects me to know things! But then there's a point a bit in where I feel like I ought to know things and STILL DONT and it makes me crazy and feel like I'm an awful employee. Hint: If you feel this way you probably aren't.
Yeah, that! It's a confidence/competence thing, I think -- at first you know you don't know anything, eventually figure out what you don't know, but then it takes time to learn it.
GOOD LUCK! You are smart and capable!
You will be great, Jess. I've met you, I know.
Okay, email sent. Now to have a quick panic attack at my desk and then go for a walk while I wait for paperwork/next steps.
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I really, really, really hate and fear change. My current job is like an old pair of shoes where the soles are almost worn through so they're really uncomfortable almost all of time, but I've had them forever and wearing them until they literally fall apart is so much easier than breaking in a new pair. All hail the mighty inertia.
I really, really, really hate and fear change.
Wrod. It's my biggest bugaboo.
Got it! It's the Dunning-Kruger Effect -- I was thinking of the dip in this graph.
Yay change! Woo! Embrace the Change! Also, you can totes do this, and will rock it. I look forward to the "I am so glad I made the change" posts in the future.
Didn't need to be repeated!
Yay Jess! I to hate change, except that I also get really bored, so it is probably good that job duty change tends to be forced upon me every 3 years or so, even though I have the same job.
I can't BELIEVE how good I thought I was at sewing when I was younger. Now I know how much I suck, and think I sort of over sell it.
Hooray Jess! You can do it!!!
