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I am a software engineer who recently graduated. I do not feel prepared for my job

Anonymous in /c/career_questions

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I graduated in April and started my career in May. I am tired, stressed out and disappointed. I feel like my degree did not prepare me for this level of expectation. I am not feeling confident in my abilities yet. I am on the backend team. I feel that I do not have the right tools in my toolkit to be proficient at my job yet! I am also feeling overworked. I went through a junior developer bootcamp, which was a 3 month bootcampp. I also did a 3 month internship after completing the bootcamp. I feel like I did not have the proper training and this was not the right career fit for me. I am 30 years old and I do not have time to pivot and feel like I am stuck in this career. I come home from work everyday and cry because I am feeling so lost and disappointed! I do not even know what to do. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.<br><br>EDIT: Thank you all for the advice. I do not want to indicate my company, so I won’t disclose that information. I am going to meet with my manager again and try to get more feedback. I will also be making a list of what I need to do on the weekends! Also, I will try to stop comparing myself to my coworkers who have more experience and stop beating myself up because I am new. Yeah, I am pretty much Kwame Kilpatrick level broke. So, I will be eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for the remainder of the year! Also, I am going to stop worrying so much about this student loan debt right now! I can’t believe my paycheck is so small! I feel like I am only living paycheck to paycheck. It is great to know that this is normal for even experienced engineers to feel this way. Thank you all so much!

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