i work in london now...

Yes, this has been almost every job I've ever started.

If I haven't felt like this during my first few days to a week, then I find that I've taken a job that is totally beneath me, and get so bored so quickly I end up having to leave.

I've felt that way about relationships.

not just jobs but LIFE!

i guess you're right. it was sold to me as a similar job to my last one from which i got made redundant but really really enjoyed. within my first day of arriving i realised it required a completely different skill set from the ones i'd been developing over the last year or so and that the company, despite delivering a similar product, work in a very different way than i am used to.

On Wednesday I had to travel to Wales and that night I was so drained and baffled I felt like ringing my boss and telling her I wanted to quit. Next day I started to resolve things. The work was starting to make some kind of semblance but was still very confusing but I figured that that's life. I'm not going to walk straight into the exact same role as I had before, and besides at least I won't be bored as KAte says.

Kate is right. Anyway, do they not give you some kind of breaking in period? In my job they give you six months to get up to speed before they start insisting on everything being perfect.

You've beaten off all the competition to get this job, and they wouldn't have offered it to you unless they thought you were the right person. Don't worry about feeling out of your depth to begin with - it takes a while to get used to new ways of working, and it can be a few months before you start to really feel comfortable with it all. That new-job-confidence-crisis is pretty common, so don't be so hard on yourself :)

my first post-grad job felt a bit like this a month or so in. boss had expectations of me i couldn't live up to at the time and we had different ideas about the sort of role i was good for. i never had to travel to wales tho, only a few stops down the central line. anyway somehow i managed to ride it out by demonstrating to him what i was good at combined with him being slightly less of a clueless egomaniacal tosspot some of the time.