O.K., so I've been full time in my new job for about 10 working days. I'll come clean, it's been a humbling experience. Quick background, I've been evolving over the last 5 years, first as a desktop tech, then a system administrator, then a computer security guy, and now I'm in systems engineering on the security team.
What's that rule about being promoted to your level of incompetence? Every other time I've moved up, I've been able to immediately contribute, not now! I'm getting totally overwhelmed, I'm carrying half a dozen books with me to and from work, trying to learn 2 new operating systems, 4 versions of our software, our system architecture, and I keep going to these meetings where everyone is throwing around acronyms I have no idea what they mean, and everybody seems so freaking smart, way smarter than me-aack!
Everybody in my group says not to worry, it will take time, yadda yadda. But I swear, sometimes I find myself staring at the monitor and piles of data and realize I've been sitting there lost for 10 minutes! You engineers rock, I'm not worthy. I have my work cut out for me.
So what's my point, you ask? Well, basically, I'm looking at this board as my vast resource of numerous engineers/ex-engineers and general smart people for some advice on the best way to proceed from here. A plan of attack for a seemingly insurmountable task. My first couple of projects got rave reviews, so I have good will among my peers (I think), and I don't want to burn through it before I can stand on my own two feet.
...yeah, I'm just stress-venting, too.
What's that rule about being promoted to your level of incompetence? Every other time I've moved up, I've been able to immediately contribute, not now! I'm getting totally overwhelmed, I'm carrying half a dozen books with me to and from work, trying to learn 2 new operating systems, 4 versions of our software, our system architecture, and I keep going to these meetings where everyone is throwing around acronyms I have no idea what they mean, and everybody seems so freaking smart, way smarter than me-aack!
Everybody in my group says not to worry, it will take time, yadda yadda. But I swear, sometimes I find myself staring at the monitor and piles of data and realize I've been sitting there lost for 10 minutes! You engineers rock, I'm not worthy. I have my work cut out for me.
So what's my point, you ask? Well, basically, I'm looking at this board as my vast resource of numerous engineers/ex-engineers and general smart people for some advice on the best way to proceed from here. A plan of attack for a seemingly insurmountable task. My first couple of projects got rave reviews, so I have good will among my peers (I think), and I don't want to burn through it before I can stand on my own two feet.
...yeah, I'm just stress-venting, too.