i just made this right now, after trembling at my first professional correspondence with an old highschool friend.

Just became a director not too long ago. I’m still waiting for them tk realize that I don’t know WTF I’m doing.

If this feeling ever goes away, you’ve become over confident and will get back to it eventually.

When you’re a beginner, it’s both. The further you get into your career, it’s usually imposter syndrome. Then again the more you know, the more you realize you don’t know.

Nobody knows everything, but everybody knows something.

keeb420
link
fedilink
22Y

No I don’t

Then you know what you don’t know, which is an aspect of knowledge.

In fact in Plato’s Apology, Socrates argues that nobody in Athens is wiser than him (Socrates) because none of them are really wise, but at least Socrates knows that he’s ignorant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_that_I_know_nothing

Do you know that?

I started this way but I’ve been in my field for a few years and now I can’t tell if I’m pretty good or if everyone else is just terrible.

rodhlann
link
fedilink
72Y

Not to worry, this feeling never goes away

max
link
fedilink
32Y

It’s the Dunning-Kruger Effect you can never escape from

Reborn Ash
link
fedilink
22Y

I’ll just put this here: https://piped.video/watch?v=kcfRe15I47I

max
link
fedilink
22Y

Thanks for the video, I really liked it

Reborn Ash
link
fedilink
12Y

You’re welcome!

Eventually you’ll realize those aren’t mutually exclusive.

We are human and we don’t know everything.

You most likely have gotten to the level for a position, for which you then build into and become more skilled.

You don’t arrive to a position (or anything for that matter) knowing everything. But you know enough to begin.

@[email protected]
link
fedilink
11
edit-2
2Y

Both! You’re probably a lot better than you give yourself credit for but also haven’t made enough mistakes yet to see the error of your code

We don’t know shit. It’s just some of us are better at pretending otherwise. Just do your best OP.

I Cast Fist
link
fedilink
702Y

Psst, don’t tell anyone, but we’re all dumbasses pretending we know shit

macniel
link
fedilink
62Y

And we never stop pretending.

If Stackoverflow and Google go down for a week at the same time, we are all out of a job. And the whole world burns.

mintiefresh
link
fedilink
192Y

Everyone says ChatGPT can’t tell if it’s wrong. Well neither can I!

If the answer is wrong, but nobody realises it’s wrong, is it still wrong?

TimeSquirrel
link
fedilink
92Y

You’re hired! Welcome aboard here at the Boeing Company.

Hay! I know things!!!

Like, uh, javascript sucks! Haha, amirite!?

(But no really I hate js so much)

Bruh, at least it ain’t Java

DarkenLM
link
fedilink
42Y

Between JS and VB.NET, give me JS anytime, even if it’s ES3.

But modern JS is way better than what it was a decade ago. It’s a pretty solid language now.

Given I have to work relatively often in legacy VB, I wholeheartedly agree. But I’d kill to be working in C# instead.

Strongly typed is life!

Speak for yourself.

I don’t even pretend.

Don’t worry, it’s both

This applies to any career, I think.

For me, it’s, “Is this good enough to get me a job. Some dude already got a whole ass facebook or twitter in his resume no forks.”

Create a post

Rules:

  1. Be civil and nice.
  2. Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.
  • 1 user online
  • 828 users / day
  • 79 users / week
  • 904 users / month
  • 2.75K users / 6 months
  • 0 subscribers
  • 2.98K Posts
  • 32.1K Comments
  • Modlog