Tomorrow I'm going to be starting my work experience program, basically like a paid internship. My AT trainer was exceptionally impressed with my abilities since he is used to students who usually don't know much at the start, but in my case, I had self-taught NVDA while waiting for my AT training to begin. So when he had me as a student, he wasn't sure what he could really teach me.

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As a result, there were some aspects of training that he did gloss over, like the microsoft suite usage, as well as some other commonly used work applications.

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The thing is, the reason he glossed over them is because he said that if I take just a little time to mess around in them, I'm tech savvy enough to just sort of get it intuitively, so we didn't work with them much.

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Problem is, here in about 7 hours I am going to be startin gmy work experience program with the place that's going to be taking me on, and the work experience I'm doing is being an assistive technology instructor. So I'm going from not really working with the microsoft suite at all, to teaching others how to use it. And my big fear right now is that I'm going to get into zoom with them in the morning, and they're going to ask me to do something on Office or Excel and I'm going to be a bumbling idiot for a ltitle while and have to google the keybind, probably.

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Am I overreacting here? Is it going to be easier than I'm thinking? I have a lot of faith in my PC use, but I don't even use the screen reader that they are having me teach all tha often. I hate JAWS, but I understand that it's the "work" screen reader, and I'm going to have to use it one of these days. I just vastly prefer NVDA, and use it on a daily basis on my personal PC, and have grown very accustomed to it.

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From what I have heard from you guys is that JAWS is very very similar to NVDA, or vice versa, so that is nice, as it means some of those skills will transfer over. How true is that statement though?

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I don't know, I'm just sort of stressing out.