{"id":27439,"date":"2017-03-20T15:04:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T13:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=27439"},"modified":"2017-03-20T15:04:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T13:04:20","slug":"on-impostor-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2017\/03\/20\/on-impostor-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"On Impostor Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

David Walsh<\/a> shares some thoughts on an impostor syndrome. \u00a0I’m sure anyone in the tech industry can relate. \u00a0I certainly do.<\/p>\n

“Impostor” is a powerful word but that’s how I have felt during all of my career as a professional web developer. I feel like I’ve learned every day of the ride but I feel like I’m way behind. I feel like people see me as something of an expert where I see myself as an accident waiting to happen. I’m a complete impostor. A fraud.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Apart from the honesty of his feelings, I like his ways of snapping out of it. \u00a0They do work for me too:<\/p>\n

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  • Look at your (hopefully decent) employment history and know that, on a basic level, you’re much more wanted than you’re wanted gone<\/li>\n
  • Log onto the IRC channel of a skill you feel comfortable with and answer questions of those asking<\/li>\n
  • Realize that people who consider themselves “experts”, and don’t go through waves of self doubt, are idiots that are so arrogant to\u00a0not <\/em>know what they don’t know<\/li>\n
  • Remember the last time a non-developer friend asked you the most basic of computer-related\u00a0questions<\/li>\n
  • Perform any simple exercise in the JavaScript console<\/li>\n
  • BLOG! \u00a0The worst thing that can happen is someone corrects you and you learn something out of it<\/li>\n
  • Review your code and find little nits to fix<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    One other thing that helps me, is this bit by Joe Rogan:<\/p>\n