Stress

So, I have a new job. About a month ago a job posting came up in my company for a manager position and I applied and got it. Two weeks ago was my first official day in my new position. I manage a team of web and vb.net developers at my company.

So far I have been so overwhelmed. The area that I moved to supports a bunch of systems that I have never worked with before. So, not only am I trying to get used to managing people, but I also am trying to learn several systems. It's hard. I hate not knowing what I am doing. It is so frustrating to spend my whole day not having any idea what people are talking about. I get emails all day long and most of the time I have no idea what they are talking about. Luckily the other managers on my team are fantastic and are so helpful. They are always willing to stop what they are doing and explain an email, or give advice about who should work on something or point me in the right direction for problem resolutions. My team that I manage is equally helpful. They will explain their systems to me in great detail and help me to understand what they are working on.

My days just fly by. On Tuesday, every time I looked up it was an hour later. I feel like I barely get anything accomplished during the day and I have yet to be able to leave work on time. I will be so glad when I start to settle in to my new role and things start making sense.