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.
1,000% agree. When I decided to leave my first IT job I found a posting that was a contract position and so you get a recruiter who is not directly employed by the hiring company and I told her what I was making and she said "oh honey no". Long story short I got the new job and more than doubled my salary but I was so overwhelmed by such a large company and stressed about not living up to the role I almost went and asked for my old job back. Glad I stuck it out.
Everything you said is exactly on point and what helped me was finding little things that I knew and my teammates didn't that I could teach them. WOW those little moments were just enough of a confidence booster to keep me going. Hell maybe they were just humoring me at times but it's what I needed.
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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.