Interesting, the common meme about imposter syndrome is that it’s just a cognitive distortion, but it sounds like you think you were actually an imposter even in retrospect. At the time, did you feel anxious about your job the same way people with imposter syndrome generally do?
TBC I didn’t spend my whole career like this, just the last 3-4 years. And yeah, for those years I felt I was bad at my job and underqualified, and it was extremely frustrating that when I reached out for help people would say “oh you just have imposter syndrome” without checking my actual performance. And when they finally caught up to reality, there was never any acknowledgement that I’d been trying to get this addressed for months.
Interesting, the common meme about imposter syndrome is that it’s just a cognitive distortion, but it sounds like you think you were actually an imposter even in retrospect. At the time, did you feel anxious about your job the same way people with imposter syndrome generally do?
TBC I didn’t spend my whole career like this, just the last 3-4 years. And yeah, for those years I felt I was bad at my job and underqualified, and it was extremely frustrating that when I reached out for help people would say “oh you just have imposter syndrome” without checking my actual performance. And when they finally caught up to reality, there was never any acknowledgement that I’d been trying to get this addressed for months.