It does take time but it is a great feeling when you notice your coworkers gaining confidence in your ability. I used to hate being on one person's job because he didn't seem to have much patience for having the apprentice there. Somewhere that changed. A few weeks ago he told me he feel comfortable leaving me there by myself because he knows what I'm capable of and I'm smart enough to figure it out. Even threw out some suggestions on that job that he took.

Today I worked with our service guy for the first time. Haven't met him much but I from what I've been told about him I was nervous about helping him today. I didn't want to fuck anything up, make a bad impression, or give him any reason to have anything bad to tell the boss because I'm sure he's going to ask how it went since we've never been together before. You know.

Didn't fuck anything up and the day went awesome. He had me doing most of the cool stuff without having to instruct me much. He had me land the panel we pulled for. I had never done that before. I didn't tell him that, I just did it.

What's even better than others having confidence in you is when you start having confidence in yourself.