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[andrewducker]

Annoyed at myself today. Work isn't going very well, largely because I've not been trained in the system I'm working with. However, I was far too tired at work (despite getting 7 hours sleep) with the result that my concentration span was down. I'm getting an early night tonight and making sure that tomorrow I can attack the work fresh and make some decent headway. The last thing I want to do is get demoralised 3 days into a new job.

Having said this, this is fairly standard for new trainees - it always takes some time to get into a new system (especially one as big as this) so it's to be expected that I'd spend the first few weeks/months feeling stupid as I pick up the experience. I just need to keep plugging away.

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[aberbotimue.livejournal.com]

good luck with it...

Lets face it, if you are strugling, It must be hard.. and if others take months to get it, you'll have it figureed by friday.

[kpollock.livejournal.com]

Not to depress you but it may take quite some time to get into (a) system(s) that you didn't either write or participate in the design of, especially if (as it usual) the documentation is bad/non-existent.

I worked at one place for over 18 months and still didn't understand what the hell was going on. It didn't stop me from doing the work that I needed to do, as I am quite good at taking things in isolation, but it did mean that I often couldn't take that extra step and improve/expand things.

I've been here over 3 months now and I still have only the slightest clue about limited parts of the system.

Don't worry about it

[andrewducker]

Oh, I'm not worried about it. I know that the main cause of my stress was (a) lack of sleep and (b)lack of training. Once those two are out the way I'm happy to potter along and do what I can. I just resent not being properly prepared.

[kpollock.livejournal.com]

Just like life then :-) We are never prepared for that!

[andrewducker]

and as a side note - the lack of tiredness today has made the work a lot easier.