New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Impostor Syndrome, or Just an Impostor?
Ask HN: Impostor Syndrome, or Just an Impostor?
4 by c7DJTLrn | 2 comments on Hacker News.
It's been a significant year for me career-wise. Through a few job switches and word of mouth, I moved up from a small software company to a massive firm you've probably heard of which has doubled my salary. My first month has been quite a struggle and I constantly feel like I don't belong here. I'm getting paid more money than I could have imagined making but my output is a fraction of what it was at my old job. I usually make a conscious effort when I start at a new job to carve out some work that needs to be done for myself and get cracking but I'm having trouble understanding the project. Everybody is much more experienced and older than me. I'm in my early 20s so I'm used to people seeing me as green. I had a chat with my 'boss' (not my boss per se, I don't really have one) and he seemed OK with my performance. I asked for what I could do better and he had something pretty minor for me. I just feel like dead weight and like I should be fired.
4 by c7DJTLrn | 2 comments on Hacker News.
It's been a significant year for me career-wise. Through a few job switches and word of mouth, I moved up from a small software company to a massive firm you've probably heard of which has doubled my salary. My first month has been quite a struggle and I constantly feel like I don't belong here. I'm getting paid more money than I could have imagined making but my output is a fraction of what it was at my old job. I usually make a conscious effort when I start at a new job to carve out some work that needs to be done for myself and get cracking but I'm having trouble understanding the project. Everybody is much more experienced and older than me. I'm in my early 20s so I'm used to people seeing me as green. I had a chat with my 'boss' (not my boss per se, I don't really have one) and he seemed OK with my performance. I asked for what I could do better and he had something pretty minor for me. I just feel like dead weight and like I should be fired.
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