Sounds pretty rough. Sorry you're having to go through this. Absence of technical mentorship is a huge problem in this industry so even if you find a new place of employment, you're going to have to find yourself in a similar situation (speaking from experience, the grass is always greener on the other side). Keep telling yourself: there is no shame in asking questions, asking for clarification, or asking for help if you don't know how to do something. This is ok. If your CEO has such a clear picture of what he wants, why doesn't he just build the project, ya know? They hired you because they need you, so do your best. Try not to get caught up in how ridiculous their expectations are or aren't and just build what you can because at the end of the day, they're the ones managing the project and not you. They need to be able to pace their engineers with their projects, and if they can't, they'll eventually discover this behavior is not sustainable and have to change their ways. Just know that it's completely normal to have no idea how to do something, and yet be asked to do it by a certain date or time. Deadlines are actually more flexible than they might seem.
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Sounds pretty rough. Sorry you're having to go through this. Absence of technical mentorship is a huge problem in this industry so even if you find a new place of employment, you're going to have to find yourself in a similar situation (speaking from experience, the grass is always greener on the other side). Keep telling yourself: there is no shame in asking questions, asking for clarification, or asking for help if you don't know how to do something. This is ok. If your CEO has such a clear picture of what he wants, why doesn't he just build the project, ya know? They hired you because they need you, so do your best. Try not to get caught up in how ridiculous their expectations are or aren't and just build what you can because at the end of the day, they're the ones managing the project and not you. They need to be able to pace their engineers with their projects, and if they can't, they'll eventually discover this behavior is not sustainable and have to change their ways. Just know that it's completely normal to have no idea how to do something, and yet be asked to do it by a certain date or time. Deadlines are actually more flexible than they might seem.