for any paralegals who have anxiety, how do you deal with this job? I sent out 5 letters that were combined notices of settlement conference/trial dates letters last week and I feel sick and anxious that I did something wrong even though I checked multiple times over everything. Same with all tasks in the job I can’t stop ruminating over them. open to any advice
I recently posted about the new job I started, but I wanted to add a part 2 to it. I struggle with anxiety in general and have been laid off from my prior job in a different field unexpectedly. I really like the paralegal job I just started but I also am super anxious every day. I feel like I don’t know how im doing and today the most senior attorney asked me how everything is going and she asked if I had talked to the senior paralegal today, I said yes. im concerned that tomorrow when he (paralegal) is in the office that it’ll be some sort of bad conversation and that that could have been something bad.
i feel very very uneasy in this environment. also they posted my job in two places after i accepted my offer with them but before i started. So maybe they are trying to get rid of me
they also critique some of the other employees and discuss replacing them which makes me feel sick to my stomach. I did get good feedback one day but that was a while ago.
i worked really really hard to get to this point and i feel like i want to be calm and safe feeling in my work environment. Should I leave or look for something else or stick it out?
I recently started a PI paralegal job and they hired me knowing I am completely inexperienced. I really like the job and the people, but my attorney told me she wants me to do a legal research project and she wants me to cite check starting next week. Then the Senior Paralegal told me he wants me to request medical records from hospitals and a lot of other sources. Of course I want to learn these skills but it makes me nervous to have this level of responsibility before I get my feet under me. I have academic experience with legal research and cite checking but this is obviously much more hand holdy than in practice, and I was very honest with them that I am new and a beginner in the interviews. For the medical records part another paralegal showed me how to request them but was super fast in the training and kind of just showed me his one example he was working on rather than explaining the background and basis for the requests. Am I overreacting or stupid? I like this job and want to do a good job but am worried this is a lot within my first two weeks
edit: I should have included this in my original post but I also think I’m on edge because before I started but after I accepted the offer i noticed that they had the job posted but with a requirement of 2 years of experience. One was an anonymous yet specific enough posting and one was directly from the firm. this was before I had even started. So I think I’m on edge because I’m in the “probation” period for the next 50 days and I saw that they had these posts up. So im worried if I don’t learn fast enough they’re already plotting for someone more experienced.