Just curious about your experience, as I'm only about a year in. I have a couple of decades of telecommunications experience, about half of it in networking. I consider myself to be reasonably smart (but I guess everyone probably does). I work for a small company that does professional services work, mostly for other contractors, in government.
I really like the job for the most part. I travel about 40%, get to meet and work with new customers all the time, and am constantly learning new and interesting technologies. The rest of the time, I work from home and lab things up or help out with sales prospects.
The downside is that I'm very often sent to jobs that I don't really know 100% how to do, with my bosses basically giving me the "it's ok, you're smart. You'll figure it out" line. It's been a pretty big culture shock to go from a very structured corporate/SP environment to this.
It's been ok so far, but every job I go on basically feels like I have to fake it until I make it...again. That's getting to me, even as much as I'm reading and practicing, because they're all different.
Am I just not cut out for this, or is this just how it is?
I guess the upside is that I have a good personality, and usually get along pretty great with my customers.
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