I wiped out some pretty important databases (i.e. our ERP) at my first job. While it was extremely stressful, I don't remember being scared of being fired (who

I wiped out some pretty important databases (i.e. our ERP) at my first job. While it was extremely stressful, I don't remember being scared of being fired (who else was going to fix it?). The one thing I learned, beyond not doing that again, was that being confident makes everyone else not worried, and that gives you a good bit of grace with leadership teams. I still laugh thinking about how the president, who had never showed any emotion before and was as serious as they come, brought in a Burger King meal for me while I was up late working on the restore.