New job - Yikes

[o9z]

So I applied for a position for a pretty large company. They are the 3rd largest in the nation for what they do. My resume was nothing too great, but I had alot of experience in many different areas....misc crap like writing SQL queries, HTML/PHP, and other stuff. When I interviewed with this company, they explained the position to me as a "jack of all trades" type thing. Doing networking, database crap, and some programming. I breezed through THREE interviews(one over the phone) before I was offered the position. I was offered a nice chunk of change, had to relocate, etc, thinking I could handle what I would be doing.

Well, the company must have read into my resume a little deeper than I had planned. My first task as a new employee.....rewriting a LARGE program in VB.Net. The program was originally made in FoxPro(one of the programs I had LITTLE experience in). Now I am expected to redo the thing in VB.Net(another beast I have little experience in). This is supposed to be done by the end of the year, and I don't see it happening lol. I think I might be in over my head.....but I have moved with the wife and kids, and my wife also took another job. I am the bread-winner, so we can't afford for me to quit, and it's a nice pay increase from what I had before.

Can I study up enough with books and online resources to pull it off? I catch on fairly quick, but I am stressed to hell with my perdicament.

Insight anyone? Any tips? This SUCKS!

BTW - company is great. People are great.

 

[neutralizer]

Picking up other languages can't be that bad if you're a good computer programmer.

 

[Art Vandelay]

Anything is possible. Time to hit the books and internet is here to help. There're a bunch of websites online where real pros will help for free. Good luck :thumbup;

 

[o9z]

I have programming KNOWLEDGE - but by no means am I proficient in any language!

 

[kalster]

how hard can it be, just work hard, learning a new language isnt that hard, if you know basic concepts of database, programming etc, it shouldn't be that bad.

 

[homercles337]

Outsource it to some programmer in India. Pay him/her a few bucks an hour and you dont have to do anything!

 

[SpunkyJones]

So your not a programer. This is probably going to end badly. Maybe get your self an intern to do the work?

 

[o9z]

I won't give up that easy. My boss still thinks I can pull it off, so I will put my all into it and see what comes of it. I know programming basics, and can write smaller programs. Just haven't got into something so large before.

 

[Savij]

If you were honest about your background, then you didn't get hired because you know everything you need right now. You were hired because a group of people thought you were one of the better candidates to get the job done within the time allotted. Don't let them down.

 

[Fenixgoon]

there's a little thing called "overtime" to make sure that your project gets done

my brother's had to work on saturdays quite often to get his projects done (he worked with radar systems)

 

[jmcoreymv]

The simple solution is to outsource your job to India, and pay a programmer there a few bucks an hour to do it for you

 

[everman]

Better to get hired for something a bit over your head than something that's not challenging. imo

 

[Pastore]

I see overtime in your future. Honestly the hardest part about .NET if you've never used it before is getting accustomed to the .NET IDE. As soon as you do that the syntax is easy. Relax and dive in. Once you dig in it'll start getting easier, don't worry.

 

[bctbct]

Ask you employer to pay for a computer course at your local JUCO