8 days into my new job and the entire project (scheduling) I was hired to work on has been cancelled. They’re moving me onto another team, on a product that I know nothing about (campaigns). Part of coming over to this co was founded on the supposition that I was going to 1) be working on a new product, and 2) part of largely new team at the company. It’s not make-or-break, but that set up assuaged a large part of my anxiety as I felt like I would have ample leeway during onboarding, get to fail and fumble along with the rest of the team and keep impostor syndrome at bay.

Now I find myself on a very established team, on a very visible, well established product where I’m the only newbie. It comes with a lot of opportunity, but obviously a lot of risk and a ton of room for anxiety.

Everything about this new job sounds like I am an employee in a Chuck Palahniuk novel. I am campaign’s new staff designer. I am campaign’s advocate for an improved customer experience.