Originally posted by DieScum
How do you guys approach getting up to speed with new skills?
I've been thrashing about furiously in the deep end, like some sort of hormone enraged teenager with their first porno mag, trying to get up to speed with a new skillset. All this is in a live environment in front of the client. Either training (me being the trainer *gulp*) or with someone perched beside me.
Plenty of late nights and early mornings with the manual and testing stuff.
I find it really stressful and unpleasant but I'm now at the point where I actually have some skill in it now. I know the errors, know how to solve them, can relax a bit and start to really think about how to use it properly. Great for my CV and future earnings. Really horrible at the time and my reputation with my first few clients is trashed.
How do you guys approach new skills? Do you just jump in the deep end and blag it (and risk looking clueless)? Do you never accept a gig unless you know your stuff ( and how can you know your stuff without having done any gigs
in the first place?)
Does it always work out or do you just have to accept that the price of new skills is looking like a tit at the start?
I've been thrashing about furiously in the deep end, like some sort of hormone enraged teenager with their first porno mag, trying to get up to speed with a new skillset. All this is in a live environment in front of the client. Either training (me being the trainer *gulp*) or with someone perched beside me.
Plenty of late nights and early mornings with the manual and testing stuff.
I find it really stressful and unpleasant but I'm now at the point where I actually have some skill in it now. I know the errors, know how to solve them, can relax a bit and start to really think about how to use it properly. Great for my CV and future earnings. Really horrible at the time and my reputation with my first few clients is trashed.
How do you guys approach new skills? Do you just jump in the deep end and blag it (and risk looking clueless)? Do you never accept a gig unless you know your stuff ( and how can you know your stuff without having done any gigs
in the first place?)
Does it always work out or do you just have to accept that the price of new skills is looking like a tit at the start?
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