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I’m sitting in the parking lot 1.5 hours early to start my new job today. I’ve been rather nervous about it since I accepted the job offer in early December. I’m going to be working with completely foreign tools and software stacks than what I’m used to. I never said I was pro or experienced at this tech stack, let them know during the interviews repeatedly that I’m just getting started with this kind of work and tech stack (devops role using jenkins and ansible mostly). And my experience and knowledge is limited to theoretical understanding of how these tools work together.

I’m excited to get to learn all kinds of new tech and push myself. But I’m also terribly nervous about how quickly I can pick this all up so I’m not a burden to the team.

I’m definitely trying to stay calm and keep a cool head haha, I have some mild G.A.D. Mostly manageable, as long as I can recognize if I’m spiraling.

Thank you @irene! 😊

Best of luck!
Update us at the end of the day 🙂

You'll do great, be confident. All the best ☺️

The road to success leads through the valley of nerves ... Enjoy

@TerraNimbus-io you can do it!

What is the tech stack you will be working with?

More important than experience is a willingness to listen and learn. Also, ask LOTS of questions; even though it may stoke imposter syndrome, you may be surprised how often the questions you ask, even (especially) the simple ones, require answers that many may not have or prompt a useful dialog. It's nice to know that you aren't the only one with questions. I can't count how many times I've asked what I thought was a dumb question only to find that other people were wondering the same thing but were afraid to speak up.

@karma nice way of putting it

Dont worry
StackOverflow has your back

Good luck !

Just do a binge watch/study on a good tutorial site (I use pluralsight) on a weekend on these topics n sure you wud feel good.

Thank you for the good vibes and positive words Everyone! Today went definitely better than I was thinking it would.

The office culture is pretty mellow and very laid back; no formal dress code. Just can’t wear ripped up pants or sweats, but shorts and T-shirts perfectly okay! I’m personally super stoked about this because I’m a fairly heavyset dude and button up dress shirts always make me feel like I’m being choked out.

Everyone on my team seems great and they are very willing to help out and show me the ropes at a moments notice.

As for the tech stack... this one is definitely a major game changer for me. Which makes it exciting of course! We are running multiple DB engines, like cassandra, and MySQL. We are using docker for the core app. (Java app) Deployments are made with ansible play books to the servers.

Good thing I’m not working with any of the app code, I just can’t java. No matter how hard I try.

Lots to learn but I’m stoked as hell to dive in!

@TerraNimbus-io for DevOps, makefile, bash scripts, ansible, Jenkins, docker n kubernetes is one of the BEST stack, you are so lucky to get this for your future.

@ajit555 I actually feel like I won the lottery when they offered the job. Partially because I’ve been wanting to get into this kind of tech stack for about a year now, because they offered me an awesome salary, and I was working freelance gigs here and there for the last 5-6 months and we were struggle-puffin’ hard financially. (My wife and I) When out of the blue this position was suddenly thrown my way for an interview and I was able to make it all the way through to being hired.

@TerraNimbus-io "I actually feel like I won the lottery" - you bet, you really won :) Just realized that your DevRant user name is your company name. Normally we use some cryptic name if we need to keep identity safe or I use my real name :) Just give your best, the future is already bright.

@TerraNimbus-io Wow, it's incredible how similar your story with this new job is to mine.

The company I started with a couple of coworkers of mine failed hard, and after working my ass off for virtually no money I almost ended up broke.

I felt fucking useless and stuck. I started looking for a job without any confidence in myself.

I sent my CV to my current employer, asking if they had a PHP dev position or something. They offered me a job I thought I wasn't good enough for. My job interview went along the lines of “Do you have any experience with this or that?” “Well, I know of them, but I haven't used them” over and over again. They hired me anyway.

It's been two years now. I also feel like I won the lottery. I realized I was more prepared for the job that I wanted to give myself credit for. I'm constantly learning new things and the work environment is amazing. My salary is also really good. My teammates are awesome. I'm really thankful they believed in me when I most needed it.