Imposter Syndrome

[Doctor Phibes]

Anybody else get this?

Honestly, I've been doing this job for over thirty years, and I was getting audited this week, and I genuinely started thinking I wasn't going to be able to answer any of the technical questions and I'd look like an idiot and we'd lose our accreditation.....

I know, I know, I look like an idiot anyway. Still, I got through the audit.

[George K]

@Doctor-Phibes ....

Hmm.

"Imposter syndrome" you say.

[Doctor Phibes]

@George-K said in Imposter Syndrome:

@Doctor-Phibes ....

Hmm.

"Imposter syndrome" you say.

Lolz. I hadn't thought of that...

[Aqua Letifer]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Imposter Syndrome:

Anybody else get this?

Honestly, I've been doing this job for over thirty years, and I was getting audited this week, and I genuinely started thinking I wasn't going to be able to answer any of the technical questions and I'd look like an idiot and we'd lose our accreditation.....

I know, I know, I look like an idiot anyway. Still, I got through the audit.

I asked my boss, his boss, and some very, very senior people essentially what the point of the project was I was working on: what it should do after completed. Literally no one has an answer. Not even one that's made up.

So no, I don't get that. Like ever.

[Mik]

I understand it very well indeed. But you are a manager now. You're not necessarily deeply involved in the technical details. It is not surprising that you don't know them as well as if you were still designing solutions.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Mik said in Imposter Syndrome:

I understand it very well indeed. But you are a manager now. You're not necessarily deeply involved in the technical details. It is not surprising that you don't know them as well as if you were still designing solutions.

That's a great point. Also, Dunning-Kruger dictates that Imposter Syndrome is a pretty good indication you actually know more than you think you do, not less.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Mik said in Imposter Syndrome:

I understand it very well indeed. But you are a manager now. You're not necessarily deeply involved in the technical details. It is not surprising that you don't know them as well as if you were still designing solutions.

I'm not a real manager, I'm a technical team leader. I do technical reviews on everything that goes out the door - now you've got me worried about that, too.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Aqua-Letifer said in Imposter Syndrome:

@Mik said in Imposter Syndrome:

I understand it very well indeed. But you are a manager now. You're not necessarily deeply involved in the technical details. It is not surprising that you don't know them as well as if you were still designing solutions.

That's a great point. Also, Dunning-Kruger dictates that Imposter Syndrome is a pretty good indication you actually know more than you think you do, not less.

I have a deep and abiding suspicion that neither Mssrs. Kruger nor Dunning knew what they were talking about.

[Mik]

Go ride your bike. All will be well in the land of D'Oh.

[jon-nyc]

We’re near record low unemployment levels so you should be able to find a new gig easily if they find you out.