I’m not that old either friend, so my perspective is similar to yours. I came in this job, as my first job, I said I’d be able to take on implementing 3D, even though I had never done it, because I knew I’d be able to. Of course, I didn’t have all I required when I said I’d be able to, but that is for them to provide me the appropriate tools for me to be able to do my job correctly, if it is what they desire.
I came in this company straight out of school, started working on AutoCAD, developped the codification we’d use for 3D, then proceeded to take care of the transition internally.
We needed to figure a way to send the information to our ERP, I didn’t know how to do it, but I knew I could eventually come up with a solution that would work, which i have and we use since.
We needed to build a structure for our 3D, so I came up with something very similar to the Skeleton Sketch, but that lacks all the advantages of the skeleton sketch. I had a skeleton sketch, but it wasn’t inside a part that was inserted at other places. It was inside the beam’s trailer, which was the “start” of the assembly. Then we eventually transitionned and rebuild our entire structure to use the Skeleton Sketch.
Don’t be scared of the unknown, if you know what you’re capable of.
One last thing!
Use that to your advantage then! Clarify what you mean, the lack of clarity can go both way. If they don’t truely see all you have to offer, then that leaves room for you to clarify and sell yourself. If they misinterpret and see way more then you are offering, nothing stops you from clarifying to them either. People like confident people who can be precise.