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Freefaller said:
Does anybody ever get that "imposter syndrome" when starting a new job?

I've always felt a little bit of that, but I soon get over it - however sometimes it can be pretty chronic. I guess it is a little self doubt or the unknown of starting a new environment.

Just curious to hear other people's experiences. :)
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random quote, but i remembered your post while listening to a networking podcast last night as the imposter syndrome question came up.

he mentioned his blog post: http://ethancbanks.com/2017/04/03/we-are-none-of-us-imposters-an-allegory/
;)
 
Back from Boston, was a bit of a nightmare situation going in, but managed to pull it round and met the people I needed to and since been lined up with some great connections, who I should be meeting when I'm out in Salt Lake City next week, fly out on Sunday. Man I'm so tired.

We've just onboarded like 3 people as well. Data systems manager who's currently building up our cassandra db for live readings. 1 senior software engineer, who used to be a CTO and is **** hot on devops, which is amazing as we need that. Another software dev who will work under the new dude and Sean. Met up with our VP of R&D in Boston too and talked about pipeline and next 3 months/6/12. Really useful, now to just hammer it all out and get the selling in at the same time.

It has felt so slow and hard the last couple of months but I'm mentally bringing myself back around and going to hammer this. (I get serious emotional swings :/ )

Anyway, that's me .
 
Just wanted to say thanks to everyone posting advice in Careers forum. The posts here reinforced my reasons for leaving my last employer. They've made changes since I left and have managed to convince me to return after four months and on a 43% increase in salary and two grades up.

Just stay positive and keep improving yourself. With a bit of luck people will recognise your values and the opportunities will follow.
 
Been in my new role for about 2 weeks now. I'm finding it to be a really difficult transition, they're a lot more process focusses than my old place and I've learned that my skills lie in my creativity in terms of commissioning rather than my procurement ability. Bit sticky given that this is a procurement business partner role. Had a meeting yesterday where i felt more out of my depth than I have for a long time. I've decided to hammer at my weaknesses and get learning what I need to know, I think being at my old place for 6 years has made the transition much more difficult so I'm going to to start challenging myself to get to where I need to be.

Ultimately though I think in the long term I need to look at a more service delivery style role where i get more input into what the end service will look like.
 
There's a team of three of us, we are architects/project engineers. One of the guys who has been here the longest has barely been in all year.

Just before Christmas he went to NZ for 4 weeks for his honeymoon which is fine. He then took 3 weeks off to have a new kitchen fitted, he was back in for a week and then had to take more time off for the kitchen. Then his back was playing up, he came in last week for 2 days, rang in sick on Thursday and this morning his back is knackered again so he said he probably won't make it in this week. I don't think he has done a full weeks work at all in 2017. In the past month he's been in for a total of 2 days. One of those he didn't get in till 10 and left at 4pm! And they say contractors are at risk?!

He's a clever lad, nice bloke but the other lad and I are having to pick up his work. It's getting to the point where I feel like mentioning something to my boss about it, give him his notice and get someone else in who can actually turn up!

I did tell him last summer when he first started having back issues to go perm with Bupa etc but he stayed here, probably thinking of the day rate. But when you're not here you don't get paid!
 
It gets better, he agreed to come in on a Sunday in June and I've just been asked if I can do it as they don't know if he'll be in.
 
People annoy me... bugging someone, a "founder" to do simple **** for 2 weeks and nothing. I said wtf do I need to do to make this actually get done? Cattle prod? He was like well if you want me to resign. I said, sure, I can find someone else, if you want to **** your shares away, go for it. I'll get someone cheaper and harder working than you. HAPPY MONDAY!

I got back from Salt Lake City at 7pm last night after a week... I've seen my family for 4 days in the last 3 weeks and I'm tired and have too much work to catch up on, so dealing with this is precisely what I want this morning.

How's everyone?
 
Sent home from work as I did something to my knee yesterday playing football(first time in years) and can barely walk, got called into the office as my manager noticed me limping (Thought it was going to be about the skin full I had last night)

Time do get my CV updated I think and see what other jobs are out there
 
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