Why am I so indecisive?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I am agonizing over a big job change I am making. It’s pretty much a done deal and no way to back out - about to give notice so then my decision will be pretty much set. The new job will give me better pay (not riches or anything but significantly better) but also carries more customer service type work and more responsibility, which scares me. I could have just stayed where I was in a sort of back-room job with little contact with others (I’m shy) and less responsibility but also less pay. Less pay that kept me from any chance of being financially independent (have had to live with parents while doing this job).

This new job, as I said, has a lot more responsibility (life and limb) and I am petrified I won’t be able to hack it. I am not an aggressive, bossy person like I need to be.

If I stayed in my old job, I’d be thinking how I could have had this one. If I move to this new one, I will be wishing I had just stayed in my comfortable (yet frustrating) spot. Why am I like this? Any way to stop agonizing and stressing over all this? :smack:

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Yerp. Realize that change is an inevitable part of life and accept that what you are going to do will be a challenge whereas where you are you have already mastered. It’s perfectly normal to be nervous and I think every one secretly thinks they are a fraud and will be discovered any minute that they really can’t do the job they were hired for. If you were honest and got the position, then your new bosses have taken a leap of faith in you, and if they can so can you.

Hope that helps…