When usual first-day worries take on a whole new meaning - Editor's comment

The first day in a new job is never easy. You worry about how you look, if people will like you, if you’ll like them and if you’ll be good enough to tackle the role.
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Nerves are inevitable. It isn’t very often that so much feels like it is riding on so many first encounters. How will you remember everyone’s name, what if you get lost trying to find the toilet and is your outfit either too smart or not smart enough?

It gives me butterflies in the stomach just thinking about it and we have all been there.

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What are your starter day memories of happiness, embarrassment or short-lived employment? Go on, share a little fun and be glad you aren’t doing it today.

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Timely weekend reminder of all those who can’t stay safe - Editor's comment

Everything is different in lockdown and a whole lot worse when it comes to trying to fit in with new employers.

To start, you can’t even meet the team let alone try and get on with them.

We have people working on The Star who haven’t met most of their colleagues yet other than via video calls, which just isn’t the same.

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Then there is the fact that you can’t ask a quick question to the person sat next to you, when they are actually on the other side of the city. Everything becomes a palaver and it just adds to the stress.

However, let me pay tribute to all those who have risen to the challenge and become established members of offices which only exist virtually.

I'm sure they have learnt much and I know they will have taught their bosses a thing or two about flexibility and resilience. Times that by a thousand and you can start to imagine the situation faced by the apprentice nurses on today’s front page.

They are walking into a health service which is stretched beyond its limits and helping patients struck down by a disease that spreads so easily. What wonderful people to ever considering nursing, let alone in the middle of a pandemic.

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Aren’t we blessed to have them? I am sure that starting their careers won't be easy for them but then neither was finishing their studies.

Good luck to every single one of you and rest assured, knowing what you do and that you are willing to go straight onto the frontline of the battle against covid on our behalf will bring a grateful smile to the face of every Sheffielder.

In these confusing and worrying times, local journalism is more vital than ever. Thanks to everyone who helps us ask the questions that matter by taking out a digital subscription or buying a paper. We stand together. Nancy Fielder, editor.

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