Optimistic Puzzlery

So, now … what?

After a few weeks of ridiculously fortunate (read: paid and hopeful) uncertainty, the what has been solved for, mostly. I am starting a new role with the company next week.

There are some external logistics to be wrangled before then, including the paperwork dance that will clear me to attend my project’s kickoff and meet my new client prior to my official start date.

Of course, there’s also the internal penguination model to decompose. It currently looks like:

You can totally do this job vs.

You have done this job, but you have no idea how to do it on purpose vs.

Are you just telling yourself that you have no idea because you’re too scared to acknowledge that you know what you’re doing? vs.

What do you need to learn to do this job like somebody who knows what they’re doing? vs.

Are you just overthinking things?

This is not a new puzzle for me. I’ll work through it, and I’m happy to have time to do so. I renewed my ITIL4 Foundations Certificate and picked up Duolingo1 again to keep the MustBeLearningNowNowNow itch scratched until I have settled into the new role.

  1. This time, German, instead of revisiting French or torturing myself with Finnish. Ich habe als Kind Deutsch gesprochen. Ich weiß nicht, wie gut. ↩︎

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