The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Feeling positively overwhelmed at my new job.
My team is 'cracked' (as the kids call it) and I'm going in with a combination of excitement and nervousness. I've prided myself on being a clinger, hanging on for dear life. Today, I'm once again the stupidest guy in a room. I'm looking forward to it.
In my experience, surviving is an stronger motivator than thriving. I've jumped into the deep end of the pool, goal for the next 1 year is to survive. (Gotta hit that 1 year cliff)
How do you get up to speed in a situation like this?
I often find myself, well, maybe not the stupidest, but far from the smartest in the room. I don't want to interrupt the smart people when they're going a mile a minute doing something important every time I lose the thread, but if I never ask questions I never get better at keeping the thread. What do?
You just dive in. The most critical two things are an actual task, so you can test your knowledge, and as much face time as you can manage with your team to get KT until you feel like you're not drowning. I usually just work 60 hours my first week if I feel at all behind, focusing on asking questions during work hours, and getting my full dev environment running and adding toy components after work. Then I drop down to 40 as soon as I feel confident I'll be delivering my work in a timely manner.
Also helps to do one-off questions in chat asynchronously, and be prepared with a ton of topics whenever you get actual face time. I generally ask asap if it's blocking me, and write it down for my next call if I'm just curious.
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