I’ve been working in the IT industry for roughly 5 years now. I’ve mainly been an Desktop IT support technician / IT support Admin for this duration. I’ve solved a range of problems from easy to complex. I’ve also always had someone to escalate problems to if they are beyond me. This is something I am trying to get better at though.

I’ve recently started a new job as a ‘Systems Operations Manager.’ I work under a family of multi-millionaires. The company is about 70 people strong and the IT is in complete and utter disarray.

I started this week on Monday. When I walked in, the anxiety hit me so hard. I’ve been hardly able to read any documentation, or think critically at all because my thoughts and focus are being drowned out by constant thoughts of “I am way in over my head.” “I’ve got to get out of here.” “I’m not good enough to fix these problems.” “You don’t have the analytical skills to find tomato sauce in the fridge let alone find out why XYZ isn’t working.” 

It shuts my critical thinking skills down completely and turns me into a flustered, unproductive mess. 
It’s literally day 5 any my brain is bullying me so hard. Do any of you struggle with this kind of thinking? Have you found a way to cope and or help? I can’t really logic it away. It’s so hard to deal with.

Cheers guys.