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.
We all are. Even the tech lead at the top of your program is only good at what they’re good at (bad attempt at humor removed) Nobody knows everything and most of us are just googling stackoverflow like you are.
Rhetoric like this discourages women from becoming engineers, saying that a female tech lead isn’t even a possibility is pretty sexist. For the record, if you had just said “he” without the sassy parenthetical I wouldn’t have batted an eye.
*Now that I think about it, pretty sexist is an understatement, it’s just plain sexist. Female tech leads exist, look it up, and stop perpetuating sexist ideas in tech
Realizing you may not know something isn’t a bad thing, it’s a step to understanding. The people who think they know it all regardless of the evidence presented are the problem ones.
I have 20 years experience, just cracked a project I’ve been working on for almost three years, and I still hesitate to consider myself an expert.
Now, I’ll tell any lay person who will listen that I’m an expert, but man, some days I just feel clueless.
I find the biggest issue I run into is lack of a peer group. I work in a large IS department, but other than one guy at my last company who works with a different language, I have no one to talk shop with.
Once one gets to a high level of expertise, it seems there are fewer peers around - people who can teach something new, or give a perspective not already explored.
It all depends on where you work, and whether there are any user groups frequented by veterans.
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Nobody knows everything, but everybody knows something.
No I don’t
Do you know that?
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
We all are. Even the tech lead at the top of your program is only good at what they’re good at (bad attempt at humor removed) Nobody knows everything and most of us are just googling stackoverflow like you are.
As a female tech lead, its comforting to know I don’t exist!
Rhetoric like this discourages women from becoming engineers, saying that a female tech lead isn’t even a possibility is
prettysexist. For the record, if you had just said “he” without the sassy parenthetical I wouldn’t have batted an eye.*Now that I think about it, pretty sexist is an understatement, it’s just plain sexist. Female tech leads exist, look it up, and stop perpetuating sexist ideas in tech
I apologize. That was meant to be a humorous commiseration on the state of a profession that tends to be gender biased, but clearly I missed.
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.”
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.
This applies to any career, I think.
Psst, don’t tell anyone, but we’re all dumbasses pretending we know shit
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.
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?
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
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.
Not being sure about that is the essence of impostor syndrome.
Realizing you may not know something isn’t a bad thing, it’s a step to understanding. The people who think they know it all regardless of the evidence presented are the problem ones.
I’ve worked with people like that. They’re the real dumbasses.
Eventually you’ll realize those aren’t mutually exclusive.
Don’t worry, it’s both
If this feeling ever goes away, you’ve become over confident and will get back to it eventually.
There are five levels of competence
I have 20 years experience, just cracked a project I’ve been working on for almost three years, and I still hesitate to consider myself an expert.
Now, I’ll tell any lay person who will listen that I’m an expert, but man, some days I just feel clueless.
I find the biggest issue I run into is lack of a peer group. I work in a large IS department, but other than one guy at my last company who works with a different language, I have no one to talk shop with.
Once one gets to a high level of expertise, it seems there are fewer peers around - people who can teach something new, or give a perspective not already explored.
It all depends on where you work, and whether there are any user groups frequented by veterans.
Not to worry, this feeling never goes away
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.
It’s the Dunning-Kruger Effect you can never escape from
I’ll just put this here: https://piped.video/watch?v=kcfRe15I47I
Thanks for the video, I really liked it
You’re welcome!