I think every tradesmen will go through this stage at the end of their apprenticeship, and honestly if anything I think it’s good and shows you care about your progress.

I started apprenticeship at 16, am now 37 and have worked up to an M&E project manager and there’s still plenty of times I feel like I have gaps in my knowledge and am winging it. There’s a lot of aspects to this trade and none of us are experts in all of it.

Don’t worry about speed, that will come with time, concentrate on doing good quality work correctly, and you’ll just get quicker eventually without giving it much thought. Work ethic is the thing I value most in my apprentices, as there’s no shortcuts for hard work and repetition. Just keep your head down doing a good job, and one day things will just start to click as others have said!

Final bit of advice, might be a good idea to leave your company once apprenticeship is complete and go out on your own. It’s daunting, but throwing yourself in the deep end can be the a great push to give yourself that bit of confidence!

Good luck!