I haven't worked for over 5 years. my son is in year one at school and well settled in so obviously it was time for me to start moving on.
By some humungus miracle the first time i looked for jobs i saw one that sounded perfect and as if it had been created for me and my weird eclectic skills background, applied, miraculously was invited for a scary day of interviews and panels and group discussions and beyond miraculously got the job.
It is a great job landed in an employers market at a time of mass unemployment so i should feel massively boosted and confident right? But i don't! I feel terrified and concerned that maybe they'd all been on acid the night before or something.
Aside from the how the hell do you get your confidence up after years of not having to prove much to anyone and being invisible and quite cosy in your home world i want to know:
- what are your top tips for the first week at work (re: how to handle meeting lots of people, introducing yourself, work politics etc etc)
- how do you cope with being out there busy for hours a day and then back at home still with all the same work to do there as used to be your full load iyswim
- for those who've done project management type stuff or jobs where you literally have a desk, computer and a phone and have to create a service/dept/'entity' how do you busy yourself in the early days and not feel like a complete fraud
-anything else you can say to advise or encourage me.
should mention that i'm a single mum with zero input from my child's father so no partner to lean on or share the load with.
hoping mumsnetter's can help me as i am honestly daunted!