Tuesday, October 03, 2006

The Learning Curve

At most jobs I have had, I have caught on fairly quickly. This new job is proving more difficult than I had anticipated. There is a high learning curve. I'm doing things I've never done before. There are lots of different accounts to deal with and I have to learn how to enter things into ledgers and to process purchase orders. I'm slowly getting it. But I feel like I have to ask a lot of questions. And I worry that I am not getting it fast enough. I will probably start learning cataloging soon so I want to be sure that I have receiving and invoicing pretty well down. It is frustrating for me to go from being the person who knows everything (like at my last job where I had five years of accumulated knowledge) to being the person who knows nothing and has to ask tons of questions.

2 comments:

Ellen said...

Just bring in doughnuts one day and they'll answer any question you have.

Genevieve said...

I don't think they expect you to know everything right away. I never mind if people ask me questions. I'd rather get asked questions than have to re-do someone's bad work. (true story.)

or, do what Ellen says.