{"id":167,"date":"2006-11-07T23:10:35","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T06:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valianthosting.ca\/clients\/daemon\/?p=167"},"modified":"2006-11-07T23:10:35","modified_gmt":"2006-11-08T06:10:35","slug":"discomfort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"discomfort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m an instructional designer.  It&#8217;s a relatively new position for me.  Previous to shifting to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Instructional_design\">ISD<\/a>, I was a computer network\/systems support engineer, programmer, and website developer.  A few years ago I decided I needed a career shift and started my journey back through university and into the world of learning and development.  While I&#8217;m in the early stages of this new career and I&#8217;m certain I will never stop learning or become an expert in all aspects of ISD, I do have days where I think I&#8217;m pretty good at what I do.<\/p>\n<p>Today was not one of those days.<\/p>\n<p>After a few years of working with the same clients and training teams, I&#8217;ve shifted to different clients and projects over the last few months.  I&#8217;m struggling with changing my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcd.ie\/Psychology\/Ruth_Byrne\/mental_models\/\">mental models<\/a> developed through working with the old client.  No matter how frustrated I was with some of my co-workers, I was used to the way they did things and learned how to work around the roadblocks they sometimes put in place.  While it wasn&#8217;t a perfect situation I was good and what I did, comfortable with the requirements of the position, and felt I could hold my own.<\/p>\n<p>The new projects I&#8217;m working on are making me doubt my abilities and question whether or not I&#8217;m the best person to be working on this team.  I feel like the weakest link on a team of all-stars.  That said, I wouldn&#8217;t want to give up this opportunity to work with these individuals.  I have learned so much from them in the few short weeks I&#8217;ve been working on this project.  Despite the occasional feeling of floundering (today it was an 8 hour session) I am being inspired to work harder, search out the information I need to come up-to-speed quickly, and bring something of value to the table during our meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Have I mentioned lately that I love my job?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"technoratitag\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tags\/ID\" rel=\"tag\">ID<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tags\/ISD\" rel=\"tag\">ISD<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tags\/instructional+design\" rel=\"tag\">instructional design<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tags\/mental+models\" rel=\"tag\">mental models<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m an instructional designer. It&#8217;s a relatively new position for me. Previous to shifting to ISD, I was a computer network\/systems support engineer, programmer, and website developer. A few years ago I decided I needed a career shift and started my journey back through university and into the world of learning and development. While I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}