This is similar to my first Java position. It wasn't a start-up, but it was a small downtown consulting company. It took me a while to do anything simple and my

This is similar to my first Java position. It wasn't a start-up, but it was a small downtown consulting company. It took me a while to do anything simple and my boss seemed to recoil in horror whenever I asked a dumb question. I ended up lasting 6 months there. This was after moving to a new town to take the position and signing a year long lease. It turned out to be a good thing, though. Two weeks later, I ended up getting a job paying $5k more. It motivated me to get better, and now I am fairly competent at back end development. Don't sweat it, things will work out for the best. Sure it sucks to go through. I was afraid of getting fired, and I did. But for me, it was something akin to a refiner's fire. Either way, you'll become better because of it, as long as you don't take anything personally.