Please pray - New job and feeling paranoid

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Hi I apologise if I have put this in the wrong category. I have recently started a new job as a medical Secretary in a medical centre after seeking a job for some months. I have been praying for awhile for guidence on the path God wants me to take. I felt this is the path he wants me to go on for a few reasons - 1) I have been searching for work for months and I applied for this position over two months ago and I was certain I wasn’t considered for the role when I hadn’t heard anything back. 2) I applied the day after the closing date for the position as I was unaware of the closing date and I thought no way will I here back from them now 3) I was offered the job the day after the interview which shocked me!

The job requires alot of training and is different from my previous admin/receptionist roles. I am starting to doubt my ability and if I will be able to do the job and I am usually quiet around people I don’t know and it takes me awhile to come out of my shell. I have ocd/anxiety (doesn’t help things) and it is making me paranoid that my work colleagues don’t like me or think I’m quiet or odd. When I finished up yesterday I was paranoid they would be talking about me after I finished yesterday and they would be saying “she is quiet! How did she get the job! or she is odd” I know I’m probably being silly but I can’t help it. My colleagues all know each other for years and I worry they won’t want me invading there circle, I’m I being silly?
I know I’m only there a number of days and I always doubt my ability and how far I can push myself but I can’t help but think God knows what I’m capable of, my sister told me I don’t know what kind of opportunities and people I could meet through this job and I know deep down she is right.
Am I overreacting? Is it normal to feel this way for the first while? I feel if I was more confident I wouldn’t care what they think.
 
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This job requires a lot of training? No problem. You have been learning your entire life and from this training you will LEARN MORE. No reason to be self-concious if you’re a quiet person. Nobody is there to judge your personality. Just show up ready and roll with the process. You can do this.
 
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"You wouldn’t worry so much about what people think of you, if you knew how seldom they do."

Often attributed to Mark Twain, my dad used to say his own version of that to us when we were nervous about things. Try not to worry about what people are thinking. Just smile at them, and get on with your training.
 
A different approach might be to accept those fears. So, maybe they comment to each other that you are quiet, or they say you are odd. Or they wonder how you got the job. What if you realized all that might and probably will happen and they move on with their day and you move on with yours. Because I guess the other option is to quit before you start.
 
You are in God’s hands, sister.
Not in their hands.
Just have trust and faith to the Lord!
 
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Yes, “if he brought you to it, he will bring you through it!”
 
Hello.

Have worked in the medical field for years, and people do gossip. If you’re new, ask for help - write down your questions if you must, read up on things if that helps.

Confidence in your ability to do your job will come from practice and from doing it. Worrying about what people think of you to the point of paralysis may undermine your ability to do your job. What helps me is to replace that with worry about what God is thinking of me. I am still working on trusting in Him. He wants me to trust that He will take care of all my spiritual & material needs.

Also, anything other than what you can or can’t do belongs in God’s hands. Have you turned over your worries to God? Try doing this every time you have a concern, every moment if needed. Give your anxiety to God.

Also, @1ke’s suggestion to get therapy is a good one.

Placing you in the enclosed garden of the most sacred heart of the blessed Virgin Mary.
 
The beauty and value of our being is to be a conqueror and trust God in everything.
A slave who has dignity, and peace with God, is morally superior to those who oppress him.
Beauty in the face of eternity in our moral and spiritual superiority.
We are soldiers of Christ! If despondency, fear, panic, hopelessness seizes the warrior, it demoralizes.
It is best to temper a warrior in battle, in hardship, in difficulties, in temptations. Only there we become stronger.
Therefore, not a few Christians ask God for humility, not realizing that God, through the difficulties of life, brings up humility in us.
 
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