So the last time I worked was in 2011 (3 years ago) as a cashier in a grocery store. I am 21 years old & I recently finished school in a short amount of time to be a dental assistant & recently finished my hours & passed my test to become a registered dental assistant (RDA). One big problem though I've always been anxious/nervous or have had some type of anxiety when it came to me working. The weird thing is I can be very social & friendly with no problem but at the same time nervous for example: when I use to be a cashier i'd get nervous to handle money therefore leaving me to be over/short on money In my cash register all the time. So now that I am a RDA I've accomplished all my steps but now I'm nervous to actually work, like with the dentist or handle the xrays in peoples mouths, this even happened to me when I was doing my clinical hours I was always scared to train when trying to do x-rays leaving me to not do them & never learned or practiced a lot. I even got nervous with the smallest things like working the computers to pull up info or weigh kids on the detecto scale. I'm worried that since I'm a brand new RDA with very little experience the dentist will expect me to know everything but he'll yell at me because I don't, or screw up on x-rays causing me to freak out In front of a person or a kid with a parent. I've always had this weird problem in my life, I don't know what it is but I just get so nervous when it comes to simple steps like this (that other people can do so easily). So it's been like 3 weeks now since I got everything done and I haven't applied anywhere because of my nervousness it's holding me back I hate it.

I just need some advice because I don't want to end up not working for years again I'm still so young. I would love to hear everyone's opinions and advice on this thing going on with me thank you very much.