Feeling lost as a student in the "working world" [closed]

I know that this isnt the best place to write and ask about these problems, but this will be my starting point. Hey! I'm a 21 year old student currently doing his last semester (which is 3+ months of full-time working, no school studying) at a small company. After hundered of emails i got into a small company. I got the job of creating them a new website from scratch. I thought this will be a fun journey. Some info about the company: I'm the only guy who works at the IT section. So there is no mentor, no senior developers, noone who can help me in the technical parts. In the frist few days i sat down with my boss and talked what he imagined / expected in the website. Nothing crazy, but it has to be really SEO friendly (be at the top of the searchbar), fast / optimized and secure. Its mostly static, but there is a few dynamic parts like news, gallery, contact forms and an admin site where they can upload these things. All in all this didnt seem a big project for 3+ months. But after 3-4 weeks I'm getting more and more lost, every single day at work seems like I'm just doing what comes to my mind. I did a todo list, roadmap, but my mind changed almost every day so it doesnt help really. This would be a perfect time to ask for help, but I cant. I dont know anyone in the IT department, my teachers doesnt have time to help mentally, technically. Every single week, i feel like I'm more and more lost, I wont achieve what i promised, or it will be simply bad. There is so many technical / security things that I havent even heard about, thats unbeliavable. I feel like I'm just getting around trying to produce something, without much learning. I'm certain every developer has felt this at the beginning, but my biggest problem is that there is noone who could help me in any way. Yeah i talked about this to my friends, family but they couldnt help. A few days ago i met with one of my school colleague and he works in a bigger company with actual senior developers, who helps him, he feels not lost, and happy all in all. Anyone got any tips what to do in this situation? Should I look for another "internship", should I stay, or what should I do? Thanks for all the answers in advance.

Mar 18, 2025 - 18:58

I know that this isnt the best place to write and ask about these problems, but this will be my starting point.

Hey! I'm a 21 year old student currently doing his last semester (which is 3+ months of full-time working, no school studying) at a small company. After hundered of emails i got into a small company. I got the job of creating them a new website from scratch. I thought this will be a fun journey.

Some info about the company: I'm the only guy who works at the IT section. So there is no mentor, no senior developers, noone who can help me in the technical parts.

In the frist few days i sat down with my boss and talked what he imagined / expected in the website. Nothing crazy, but it has to be really SEO friendly (be at the top of the searchbar), fast / optimized and secure. Its mostly static, but there is a few dynamic parts like news, gallery, contact forms and an admin site where they can upload these things.

All in all this didnt seem a big project for 3+ months. But after 3-4 weeks I'm getting more and more lost, every single day at work seems like I'm just doing what comes to my mind. I did a todo list, roadmap, but my mind changed almost every day so it doesnt help really. This would be a perfect time to ask for help, but I cant. I dont know anyone in the IT department, my teachers doesnt have time to help mentally, technically. Every single week, i feel like I'm more and more lost, I wont achieve what i promised, or it will be simply bad. There is so many technical / security things that I havent even heard about, thats unbeliavable. I feel like I'm just getting around trying to produce something, without much learning.

I'm certain every developer has felt this at the beginning, but my biggest problem is that there is noone who could help me in any way. Yeah i talked about this to my friends, family but they couldnt help.

A few days ago i met with one of my school colleague and he works in a bigger company with actual senior developers, who helps him, he feels not lost, and happy all in all.

Anyone got any tips what to do in this situation? Should I look for another "internship", should I stay, or what should I do?

Thanks for all the answers in advance.