I always felt like I was in trouble and that I needed to know things I had never done before. If I asked questions, I was questioned why I didn't know what I was asking and if I ever paid attention in school. If I decided to just research and figure it out on my own, I was lectured for not asking questions and my boss was "losing faith" in my ability to do the job (this was a conversation that happened 6 months after my employment and continued to the end of my employment). I was using my degree but I graduated 6 years before I actually started working in my field so I was a bit rusty on what I learned in college and felt like I made the wrong choice switching careers. I was let go during the COVID quarantine which was questionable because I was not the last person hired in my department and I had to train the new person to do the work in two days that I had done for over a year and half (which stressed her out). Being laid off ended up being the best thing that happened to me since I switched careers. There was also not a lot of upward movement and even if something became available, people were discouraged from applying and friends were hired from the outside instead of being promoted.
