need reassurance

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I have only recently started posting so don't really know anyone yet but am starting a new and scary job on Monday after ages out of work. Please just tell me it will all be ok. Thank you

what is scaring you exactly - going back to work or job? I've just returned back to work after a year off and it wasn't as bad as I thought (in fact nicer). it is scary but I am enjoying challenge of getting back up to speed - it gets the adrenaline going.

It is natural to be nervous about any new job esp if you've been out of it for a while - but that can make you up your game. Also re job, someone once said to me that 99% of things you worry abotu re workign/job aren't as bad as you think and I really think that is right

It's an area I've not really worked in before and I have been employed to basically go in and set up something completely new and different - it's at a homelesness centre and I am going to be reviewing the current working practice, developing and writing procedures for volunteer, leisure , education and employment opportunites for the clients - who are homeless and usually have addiction problems, implementing it and co-ordinating it! My background is with disaffected and homeless teenagers so it's similar but rather more intense! The salary is amazing and I'm just nervous I'm going to find it an awful lot of hard work - also have two small ones at home!

small children, not small homeless people that is

everything you say sounds completely natural -its new, you want to do well and not something you've got direct experience...but sounds like from your post you're excited about it. as for working with two little ones, well it is a challenge but people manage .. someone said to me its a bit like when you have your first baby and hvae that horrible transition period of wondering what the hell you've done and how do you cope, but then you do.