I feel completely out of my depth at work

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They thought I would know statistics because one of my majors was Sociology, but all they taught us was theory

I am expected to learn a complex coding language and the stuff we’re looking at is very advanced

On top of that I took advice from a colleague who might throw me under the bus tomorrow because his advice was wrong in three areas :frowning:

As well as that, I might have made a breach by sharing something I think I was told was fine, but not so sure now

In my old job I left before Covid-19 struck, I had autonomy, freedom but limited tools - but being limited meant I mastered them

Here they use all the fancy stuff, and at first I was excited, but now I am starting to realise I am probably not going to succeed at this right now between my head being ■■■■■■ and the people in my team not helping me properly.

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Are they using SPSS?

Might be a bit antiquated now, but we had to work with that during one course while I was at college.

Not sure what kind of software they have now, and I don’t remember anything about SPSS these days, but surely there has to be a YouTube tutorial or user manual somewhere online that could be helpful for you as a starting point.

If it’s applied stats, that’s a whole bunch of math and similar but very different to like algebra and stuff.

Was a Sociology major as well :slightly_smiling_face: :+1:.

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Oh man. I feel for you. Are you going to try to stick it out and learn, or do you plan on looking for a new job

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Ah cool! :slight_smile:

Yea they taught us SPSS too, but not sure if it’s still the same as it was 10 years ago now

They probably are using it, but elsewhere

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I am going to try and stick it out, but I fear they will show me the door

If this fails, I am not trying again.

Told my mother if I fail this, I am going to move far north where housing is cheaper, and stay in the house living off benefits until I die

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Ok. I hope whatever is best for you happens

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I have faith in you. Stick with it, climb the learning curve.

The first 2 weeks on a job are the toughest.

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Sociology majors unite! :sweat_smile:

Ah, I see :+1:— missed the part where you explained it was more on the coding side of things.

Is the language supposed to perform applied stats easily? It’s cool if it’s top secret :sweat_smile:.

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Sorry I am ruminating and beating myself up. I have no outlet but here

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I don’t know what to say, but I read your posts and wanted you to know I care. I hope things work out the way you need them to, whichever direction that ends up being. I really admire you for trying so hard.

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Not top secret, but I can’t go into details.

Yea it does, but I have stumbled on some pretty advance stuff after only doing an intro course and I just felt completely lost.

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I will do my best @everhopeful Thanks

Thanks @anon39736208 that means a lot.

Just have a lot going on mentally and with other stuff at the moment, and I do not cope so well when things don’t go right

Not that I am adverse to a challenge, but I just think my placement was misjudged

My colleagues probably wonder why I was even hired when I can’t be useful

I have not even been told how long to expect to be learning this stuff on the job

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No worries :+1:.

Don’t be so hard on yourself— it’s easy to get discouraged, especially at a new job when things get challenging. Surely when your coworkers first started, they didn’t fully understand how some things worked either— perfectly normal.

As far as office politics go, that’s a toughie for sure. At the risk of sounding wack (even though he’s pretty legit), “find the helpers,” as Mister Rogers would say.

There’s defos some corporate ladder-climbing sharks in the world, but some office people are pretty decent and stay in their lanes and do their jobs well. I would look out for those folks— they make the best coworkers and are truly helpful because they believe in the work they do.

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