u/Foinkers

Context: I am an entry level AutoCAD drafter and occasionally am involved in projects on ArcGIS Pro. I probably have less than 40 hours of experience in ArcGIS Pro in the last 8 months at this job.

I learned AutoCAD very quickly but whenever I am given a project involving ArcGIS Pro, which is only every couple months, I completely have to relearn software. It's been causing me a lot of frustration and leaving me feeling very incompetent when I have to ask a coworker to teach me how to do the basics every couple months.

I was asked to start a new project from scratch after never doing this before, only shadowing someone else do it. When I was shown in the past, I just watched as they set up the entire map, coordinate system, georeferenced a drawing we were working off of, and then set up all the feature classes, domains, fields, and symbology. From there I just drew stuff basically. Today while trying to do all this setup on my own, I did not have the faintest idea what I was doing and seeking help was not an option due to a massive conference, so I got nowhere. Nothing about this software is intuitive to me so as someone who usually can figure things out and pick things up easily, this has been driving me insane. I just want to be able to work independently when I have to use this software.