Hello fellow friends of the TFP. I often post in your threads, but now I am coming to you with a situation of my own, just wanting to explain and get some feedback at this juncture in my life.
As of Wednesday, I am now a freelance web designer for a marketing and advertising consultant here in good old Asheville. As some of you may or may not know, I graduated last May with a degree in Interactive Design, which (supposedly) taught me all I needed to know about web and graphic design as well as a sprinkling of photoshop skills. I am quite happy about this new job, as I was beginning to HATE my old job, which was In-Home Healthcare.
My new boss has plenty of backlog to work on, and new jobs coming in two and three times a week, so I shall not be lacking for work. Some of these projects are quite big, as the one that I am now working on, which is taking a corporate website and completely re-structuring it. I'm looking forward to the oppurtunity to learn all that I can at this new job...
... but honestly, I TOTALLY can feel the gaps in my education. I almost freaked the crap out yesterday trying to do my last project, an easy flash animation (although PMS wasn't helping), and I feel a little... intimidated at what is expected of me in this job. It's the first time I've ever had a job that I didn't totally know enough to be the manager in ten minutes flat. I feel a bit, well...
I want to know if this is a normal feeling... does everyone have this "holy crap what have I gotten into?" feeling when they start their first "real" job? I don't think that I'm totally inept, just... going to have to spend some quality time learning all those little things that my professors neglected to teach me. I also really, seriously don't want to LOOK inept at this job, but I don't have confidence in my designs and my work to objectively edit myself... working for a guy who, in my opnion, does really really good websites also turns the pressure on. I feel like a noob... what's the best way to get over that?
