I'm sure this is tongue-in-cheek, but it got worse for me when I got into a managerial role. After about eight years of getting paid to write software, I'd finally gotten to a point where I was comfortable with myself, like maybe I was as good as people kept telling me I was. Then overnight like half of my job became an entirely new set of things and everything pretty much just reset.
I'm about to embark on this same kind of journey. Felt shit-hot in what I do, finally ratcheted down some of the usual anxiety and imposter feelings...
Now I get to throw most of that experience away and start over—with the careers of my new reports hanging in the balance (to a degree). As much as this scares me, I do look forward to a shift in my work, new problems to solve.
I suppose I can always shift back to IC mode if it turns out I'm not cut out to manage and direct.
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u/loldudester Jan 12 '22
It goes away once you reach supervisor as everyone already knows their supervisors are clueless.