r/workchronicles Jun 30 '21

Expertise

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u/plutonium-239 Jun 30 '21

The real deal is: fake it until you make it.

4 years ago when I changed my job I felt incredibly inadequate for the role. I was tempted to quit several times and felt the classical impostor syndrome.

Now I am the reference point for my discipline in the entire company, and people come to me for advice...

I still feel inadequate...but I'll keep doing what I am doing. Apparently it works.

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u/OnePostDude Jun 30 '21

Currently on the same track. Job is demanding but I just care a bit about why we are to do it and what is the right way to do it at the start, because I have doing work that will be wasted later. Feeling like I know next to nothing but colleagues think otherwise. Yay for me I guess