I am an analyst. To be honest, I feel like I am sinking, and everyone knows it. I was not an Econ major in college (poly Sci) , and I am new to excel. However, I feel like I am constantly thrown into the deep end, and no one wants to help me, answer my questions, or help guide me through asks. I was under the impression that this would be a teaching environment. Worst feeling when you feel stupid, and you know that everyone else thinks you are stupid too. Will prob b fired.

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This is not the end of the world but some pointers that might help you

- we become how we think - so firstly, do not think or degrade yourself.
- watch ur environment, have one or two ppl with the mindset to help and who are empathetic
- check how you are asking your questions , try changing the way it is asked. Before asking, did you try answering them or trying to find it urself.
- journal ur questions n answers, so you don’t repeat the same questions
- meditate, write what went well each day and what could have been better - being kind to urself and support ur own growth
- if you want help, and you are not getting it constantly - communicate it to your leads in a professional manner
- check if you are overwhelmed, if so take less but do it well

Remember it’s just a job - it’s a phase! You’ll get through it :)

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I have felt like I was about to be fired basically every day of my career. Instead I kept getting promoted or better paying job offers. 🤷‍♀️

I don't know you or your work or your company, maybe you are about to be fired, who knows? But just because you have that feeling doesn't make it true. Some of us will have imposter syndrome until we die, you just have to push through it, Google constantly, and fake it until they tell you it's over.

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If you’re at Kearney, reach out to me. I’ll try my best to guide you. Excel is just a tool at the end of the day. It should be making your life easy, not difficult.

New analysts are often not told how their work plugs into the bigger picture. They’re just handed off tasks. Not a good way to run the project but I’ve seen it happen. With more project experience and practice, you’ll be okay.

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Stay strong! You’ll get through it. I’m sure you already are doing this, but invest in yourself as much as possible after hours. Leverage YouTube and additional resources to help you get up to speed and increase your rigor. You’ve got this and don’t give up on yourself.

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Everyone on my team has made sly degrading comments

Don’t know how to do any of the calculations they want me to do😭

Just Google it. Most of us Google everything

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I’m a second year too with little excel experience. I hope you can move onto work with leaders who are willing to guide you and answer questions. When do you roll off? Watch some excel youtube. What kind of comments are being made?

This is not people building. I don’t know what firm you’re at but I would never throw an analyst or really anyone on my team under the bus in a client call. That’s bad form and says more about your leaders than you.

To me, a bad analyst is someone that DOESN’T ask questions or seek to be mentored.

I suck at Excel. I learned some basic stuff but had to do a lot of work on my own to get up to speed. Are you spending time in the evenings and weekends googling and practicing? If not, I would. Are you noting where you keep on making mistakes? And then actively doing exercises, mental checks, etc. to make sure you don’t repeat them?

Also, is there someone in your team (or a different workstream) who is good that you can gut check your work? Befriend them and just be really nice.

Lastly, I somehow made it to manager but fundamentally can’t build complex models. Where I am, we just staff people clearly for the role we need. I wouldn’t staff someone on a project that requires hard core modeling skills if they weren’t comfortable with it. No ding on them, just not their capability. I get you need to learn, but in this case your leaders should be guiding you. If they don’t have time to teach you and you’re doing all of the above it’s a poor fit and a mistake on them for staffing you.

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I was a liberal arts major and didn’t know excel. I spent a lot of time googling and asking people for help. I figured it out and you will too. It does sound like your team is not supportive - do you have a buddy or a coach you can talk to?

You must be smart and capable to have been hired
Is this job different than what you expected when you applied and interviewed? It is a bit of a leap to go from poly sci to analyst without specialized training.
It’s normal to struggle in the beginning but if you didn’t take courses in college like statistics, finance, quant, and forecasting, your learning curve will be steeper than your peers.

If excel isn’t your thing maybe you can look into other roles that are less “analyst” and more consulting/policy related.

What firm and why are you there?

Agree with, what firm? One of us can try to help you. I’ve been there!

I’ve been in a similar boat. Op, the best solution is to switch teams and if you can’t find a better team, then switch companies as it’s obviously not a good cultural fit.

What firm are you at?

OP we can't help you if you don't help us with the details

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