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Getting Comfortable in a Job

Rearden

I recently started my first 'real' IT job, out of school. I'm working for a managed services provider, dealing with SMBs.

My questions is how do I get comfortable? I'm still in the phase where I'm asking dumb questions because I don't want to mess anything up. It's not that I don't know the answer, it's that now it's on someone's real server, etc.

The funny thing is I've been working on networks and servers for some time now (albeit, as a student) so it shouldn't be this weird. For example, I was setting up a PC today in the lab, installing updates, office, etc. and I actually called someone to find out what to name it instead of just naming it anything and figuring out the real name when I brought it out to the client.

I think I need to screw up something and watch the world not end, with the biggest issue being that I have to fix it. Any thoughts on this weird rant?

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Comments

tearofs

1, No question is dumb, preventing is ALWAYS better than fixing
2, If thing can be change later, use "common sense" in the 1st place
3, Before you ask for help, use google if available
4, "knowledge base" takes time to build...

phantasm

I'll tell you what was told to me when I started my first job in a NOC:

"Ask questions, please, because if you don't ask us questions we get scared"

networker050184

Rearden wrote: »

I think I need to screw up something and watch the world not end, with the biggest issue being that I have to fix it.

Thats when I started getting comfortable in my job. I was worried about messing stuff up at first. Once I actually messed stuff up a few times and was able to get it fixed I started feeling a lot more comfortable.

Bl8ckr0uter

tearofs wrote: »

1, No question is dumb, preventing is ALWAYS better than fixing

I read something somewhere that said, never be afraid to ask a dumb question - once. Make sure you write down the answers to your questions when you get them.