I landed a job after two years of unemployment last month. I was so happy. I was determined to work hard and do a good job.
So the first three weeks were strictly training. I did well in the classroom, with high scores on the exams they presented at the end of each week. I thought I was in like Flynn.
And then I actually hit the floor. I... thought I was learning things ok, I had a trainer for the first week but I thought I was getting it.
Then Monday hit. I was asking a lot of questions, and there was a lot of new stuff to learn, and I came away feeling unsure of myself.
Tuesday I had a trainer again. Learned a lot from her, some stuff I didn't know from my first week. But I had a trainer again, and I'm not sure that's a sign of confidence in my abilities. Plus I got pulled aside by my supervisor and told that people around me were complaining that I was too loud on the phone, and that my sneezing was loud. While my supervisor understood that the sneezing's not terribly controllable, the phone thing... well, it knocked me for a loop. I had no idea that I was being loud on the phone. (All business, by the way. No personal calls.)
Am I being set up to fail? I really want this job to work out, but I'm getting scared. If I get fired from this job, it screws me up for both the immediate future as well as any further attempts to get anywhere in this field.