One of the biggest challenges that I have had in life was learning a new job.  Sure, that might not sound so hard, but for me, I love habitual behavior, so learning a new job was pretty scary.

Perhaps the biggest challenge I ever had learning a new job was when I took a job as a business phone systems salesman.  I guess I had used a phone in the past, but I wasn’t prepared for the number of models that were available and that I would have to sell.

The first day of work, I was introduced to many different Nortel business phones and I was expected to know how all of them worked.  I was also required to read some articles on how to maximize phone system resources in organizations – something I had never thought of before.

Thankfully those days are behind me now, but I still dread the idea of learning a new job – it is definitely one of my biggest phobias.