[D] Feeling overwhelmed because applying machine learning to real life problems is not trivial

Hello, I'm a young engineer and I was hired in a small company to automate some tasks using image recognition and machine learning.

Even though the technology is not new, since I need to adapt it, I face a lot of challenges (gathering the right data, adapting the neural network, solving some other problems that neural nets can't solve on their own with traditional machine learning...) The current results I get are not good enough and I have to admit I feel overwhelmed.

Is it normal? How is you experience?

Have a nice day.