was prolly the smartest that I'd even been on, but I felt like I fit right in based on the job.
but this one guy was prolly the smartest person I know. he was helpful, but as soon as he started talking, you knew he was in a different league, two galaxies away.
2. "ive been dealing with that most of this year" In response to Reply # 0
started in like december
ive been doing this type of work for 11 years now. i did take some classes in college that helped prepare me for it but it wasnt an industry i expected to be in. the print world is some voodoo stuff, especially flexo. so most of the practical day to day stuff i learned on the job.
50% probably was from direct training from my supervisor at my old job. the rest was trial and error. digging into as much info as i could find. trying out some stuff and it turning out horribly. some training by vendors. some training specific to this industry.
so my old boss (owner of the company) would talk me up to anyone he talked to. kind of his MO for everyone. so folks at my current company were victims of this talking and big a reason they hired me away.
although it is the same industry there are some key difference that did cause me worry when i was making the move. the first year or so went super smooth. the last three months have been quite a bit of issues.
some have been just straight up errors that can be attributed to laziness. others have been the type of issues where you question yourself. like, why didnt i notice this?? why didnt i do this differently? should i have expected that result??
i feel like i know 75% of what i should know to be an actual expert in this. this probably puts me in the top 10% though lol
i have to remind myself that i am good, maybe great at this. doesnt mean i wont have problems, doesnt mean i cant keep improving.
9. "I bet you'll be fine." In response to Reply # 2
its impossible to know all the ins/outs of any gig unless you been there 30 years.
I'm pretty much at ground zero with my knowledge. swimming upstream as this work comes in. I'm getting all the help I can, but folks are busy with their own jobs.
this one is throwing me for a loop because of the lack of training, change of roles, and just newness.
I took the job in project management, never having do it before. was beginning to pick up on it when everything changed. my whole team had to start doing new shit.
the pace hasn't slowed and I've had little actual work to do. so learning has been tricky.
plus with my company laying folks off, there's a lot happening. there were 3 of us in my role. all of us were new to it. 2 of them just retired.
this bag just got heavier. so I'll have to get stronger. quickly.
17. "project management was a task i took up at the old gig" In response to Reply # 8
i definitely was an imposter in that. not training on it at all. i was thrust into it because i helped them implement a new process with a machine they had purchased and the people in charge of it knew nothing but what the sales people told them.
so not only was i preparing the files all of a sudden i was actually running the machine and training others on how to run it. looking for efficiencies, keeping track of production and managing forecasts.
so that led to researching new equipment, overseeing the negotiation, purchasing, installation and implementation. did that only like 3/4 major purchases.
mind you i was still doing my graphic tasks and IT tasks i had picked up in the same manner lol. by the time i was ready to leave i had pushed most of my graphics and IT duties to others because you do need to focus as much as possible on project management. especially if you will constantly manage multiple projects.
so on project management i definitely got into gantt charts and such. if you have downtime at home or at the gig just google project management. theres a lot of stuff out there. in the end if you know how to manage time and delegate activities youll be good.
like the other poster said, they hired you for a reason. dont doubt it. lean on whomever you can. know that others are actually faking the funk. you got it.
5. "i used to suffer from that syndrome..." In response to Reply # 0
until i realized very often, during times of turmoil and uncertainty, these motherfuckers barely know shit, and just pretend to, by talking their shit well enough for others to believe they do, then they believe it themselves.
I've been doing this for 10 years but sometimes I feel like I'm just like out of gas and have no clue what do or desire to do it. Like my brain is just over it. So then I slack. And then I stress out about slacking.
So much about this job is great though, would be tough to leave.
And I do this thing where I freak myself out and think everything is terrible and then realize later that I was stressing about nothing. Like Ive been working on this project and thinking I didn't know what I was doing and had to present my progress on it today. People thought it was great. So I was worrying about nothing.
20. "Chile today I did inventory receiving for the first time. " In response to Reply # 0
Felt great. Did it with no one showing me just verbal instruction. The. Went to lunch
Came back and my manager was in the back. He apparently got a call from the assistant manager who is on vacay saying the shipment was all fucked up. The manager came while I was at lunch and basically fussed everyone here out about it. I walk in on my phone all jolly and they are trying to tell me that the manager is back there pissed. I was like ok cool. Fuck it. So I went back there and he is stressing. Then he looks at what I did and was like you did the receiving exactly right. I’m not sure what the assistant manager was talking about. So he calls him and he checks it again and they both start apologizing to me telling me how valuable I am to the company.
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