Love it!

in such situations I usually think: “If I’m not going to get it, then who?”, and I go to exhaust my colleagues even more)

Eve,
Thank you so, so much for sharing your story and the impact my story had on your career. It sounds like you are headed for bigger and better things. Yes, I remember my first days, no months, in my new role in a new organization (made more challenging by the fact that I’d also uprooted and moved across the country by myself). I did feel many times like I was drowning in new information and that I couldn’t possibly provide as much value as I did in my old role. Luckily I had an amazing mentor/manager who believed in me and didn’t let me doubt myself.

Trust me, you will look back at this time with pride very, very soon. It’s difficult but it’s worth it. It will open up so many possibilities for you. Once you learn a new domain, the third is easier and the fourth is even easier…and then all of a sudden you feel confident you could handle a very wide variety of situations.

Thanks again, and check back soon Eve to let us know how it’s going!

It was a frightening choice, and I had to keep telling myself why I was making the move. When I finally made the move, I had to once again tell myself why I had made the move. Even now, when I get discouraged and crave the familiarity of old systems, I realize I need to maintain faith in my BA competencies (I might make a case that the BA profession is in itself a ‘system’!). I admit, I was surprised that I was hired into a new domain sector (even if inside the same industry), so I consider myself lucky to have been hired by someone with the foresight to recognize that BA/BSA skills need not be systems nor domain specific.