What was your first day at your first job like? I'm really nervous. 1

[jeancb]

I start my first ever engineering job soon and I'm incredibly nervous. I have no experience, plus I've been out of school for years. I feel like I've been given a great opportunity, considering how long I've been out of school, but I'm really nervous about failing.
So I was hoping you could give me your stories of your first day (or month, or year) so that I had a better idea of what to expect. If you have any tips on how to do well.
I've been trying to review as much as possible and find out as much as I can about the product, but there is still so much I don't understand and it feels like it's basic stuff that I should understand.
I really am just so nervous and scared because I have no experience. All I have in school. And the more I think about it the more I realize it was like they were teaching us to swim without actually putting us in the water. I'm really scared of sinking.

 

[GonzaloEE]

Well, I've started working 1 week ago for a power electronics company. My first day was like making a workplace from scratch: carrying my chair, giving a hand for 'building' the furniture (yes, hammering and screwing included), setting up my new e-mail address from a borrowed laptop, and then...writing on paper all the stuff I need to install when they brought a computer to my desk.

Just like watching the History of Engineering in a single morning: from hammer to email, LOL.