Re:Actual impostors don't get impostor syndrome
by deanCommie on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @11:01PM
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re: PPS. More than you know, but going into detail about my weird and unorthodox working style would reveal too much personal info.
re: PS. I should clarify. I was a damn good programmer who could pump out clean, readable, maintainable code, faster than most. But only once I found myself in a job I loved surrounded by people who encouraged learning, were curious, and loved to teach me. You gotta find your tribe. Don't let your brain rot.
Re:Actual impostors don't get impostor syndrome
by no-s on Thursday August 12, 2021 @11:24AM
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> But only once I found myself in a job I loved surrounded by people who encouraged learning, were curious, and loved to teach me. You gotta find your tribe. Don't let your brain rot.
I have a corollary: badly managed companies make good people go bad.
Even worse is the delusion where you believe awareness of bad influences protects you from the consequences...some things can not be mitigated. For example “the culture of mediocrity” :<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257623179_The_Cultu...>.
To survive I took brainless jobs and I find myself in a different form of pain, being eroded by uneducated, learning-resistant cogs.
Right now reading you say "measuring my self against people ahead of me" feels tempting, even after all the problems I got. It's a bit like exercise .. my brain needs it or it shrivels.
ps: I didn't know generalists could fare well
pps: have all your workplaces well accepting of your working style ?