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Treat yourself like a business and pretend you are a consultant for yourself. Take the next 2 weeks to do the assessment. Highlight your gaps. Benchmark to your peers. Figure out the maturity steps in between. And then figure out the value and prioritization of changing each thing. Then make a roadmap and make some damn changes. Bill yourself at 100% utilization, and put me on for 20% oversight. Everything you put forward, I'll write 'pls fix!' So you are comfortable with the process.
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Get a mentor out of your reporting line. You want an outside view. Think longer term network opportunity as well, so make sure they are related but distant enough.
Sometimes I look at partners and remember “well if they made it…”
Don’t think that’s the case buddy, you got in because you had half decent reasoning skills.
It’s probably something like stress/performance anxiety/etc. forming a mental blockade every time you sit to think.
Figure it out, skill issue. Just remember they would have never ever ever even let you in if you didn’t have a high IQ.
You put exactly how I feel into words. My confidence impacts my work and it becomes a cycle. When I bring up my concerns with mentors they usually say empty platitudes like "you wouldn't be here if you weren't capable" but I am watching my peers and even some juniors outperform me. I don't have a good course of action but I am exploring opportunities outside as well. I think that corporate where I am on a team that has more of a routine will do well for me.
Today’s confusion is tomorrow’s competence. Learning takes time and effort.
Why do you think this?
I don’t know. Could be an IQ thing. Or just plain aptitude. Like how some people struggle with learning foreign languages but are great with business acumen, etc.
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Think about how dumb the average person you meet is. Then realize that's AVERAGE, which means a whole lot more people are dumber than that.
You are fine.
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It’s not your role to judge your performance. Do your best work and let your firm’s performance management system decide. They might tell you that you’re not very good, but at least they’re qualified to make the call and you don’t torture yourself along the way by reading their minds.
Go easy on yourself. It takes years and a different story to get there really fast, and the most common thing is that if you don’t have a lot of consultant friends, you were also out of the lingo for a while too. Just focus on churning a good outcome every day and try new stuff to solve your own problems with AI. You got this!
Leverage your current role/pay to explore other ancillary roles. E.g., if you don’t think you’re even an average engineer, but you are technically inclined, perhaps you’d enjoy writing product/application requirements as a product manager or BA. Or if you are organized and enjoy planning, reporting, and checking things off a to-do list, perhaps project management could be your thing.
Ask your manager for honest, constructive feedback on how he/she rates your performance vs expectations and vs peers.
You could also be working with some folks at your same level who happen to be over-achievers who will progress more quickly than the norm.