First week of work: have you ever felt like this?
Hello!
I’ve had my first week working in operations department as a specialist. I have to say it has not been a great week. We have an ERP system that I didn’t really caught up on, made many mistakes and that mistakes was not intentional as I just didn’t really remember the steps to take in some case scenarios. My manager even told me “I hope you can remember everything you learned in the next week”. I am very hard on myself for reasons I don’t know. I’m youngest in the room and I’ve never felt so dumb before. In my last experiences, even on first week I was thriving, now i really struggle.
I know it’s just a first week but I do believe that’s when you have to shine more to represent yourself and your value and I just didn’t do it. I really want to be the best but I’m afraid my coworkers do not think best of me.
What can I do to improve more from this Monday? How can I stand out more? What advice would you give if you had similar feeling?