Wow, after 3 months I would be feeling pretty down on myself. I'm not sure what your job entails but it sounds to me like maybe you didn't get enough training for your position? When I took the position of A/R manager two years ago, it was because the previous one got fired. Now while I had been doing A/R stuff for years, there was so much that she had been responsible for that I had never done before. And without her there to show me, I had to learn a lot on my own. I muddled through and taught myself much of my duties but I didn't really feel comfortable in my position until I was 6 months in. Thankfully, I have a very patient and understanding boss. I now have cross-trained my subordinates on my duties so that if the time came and I were moved to a new position or left the company, they wouldn't be overwhelmed like I was. And it makes coming back from vacations easy because there isn't a pile of stuff waiting on me! Good luck to you.
Quoting jenmatt451:Wow, after 3 months I would be feeling pretty down on myself. I'm not sure what your job entails but it sounds to me like maybe you didn't get enough training for your position? When I took the position of A/R manager two years ago, it was because the previous one got fired. Now while I had been doing A/R stuff for years, there was so much that she had been responsible for that I had never done before. And without her there to show me, I had to learn a lot on my own. I muddled through and taught myself much of my duties but I didn't really feel comfortable in my position until I was 6 months in. Thankfully, I have a very patient and understanding boss. I now have cross-trained my subordinates on my duties so that if the time came and I were moved to a new position or left the company, they wouldn't be overwhelmed like I was. And it makes coming back from vacations easy because there isn't a pile of stuff waiting on me! Good luck to you.
We own a large company, I stay home with kids but do have to do plenty of work for business which I feel I am good at because my parents owned businesses & worked their butts off so I am comfortable with it.
Take heart - My DH used to work as a project manager (that was probably 10 years ago, he's worked his way up.) I remember it being a very involved, always changing, but exciting and rewarding position. He's a smarty, and always good at everything he does, but it took him some time to learn the in and outs too. Don't get discouraged.
I'm good at my job, but I've been doing it for 11 years. I'm a speech therapist with our county's early intervention program. It does feel good to know that I'm confident and competent in my work. Sometimes I joke that I like to go to work (I only work 2 days per week) because I KNOW that I'm good at that...sometimes parenting is tougher! :)
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- ryantine
on Dec. 8, 2012 at 10:36 PM