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Hello, it's me.
I've been interviewing with some companies, and now I have to decide between JPMorgan Chase and Globant.
Globant is more innovative, and has remote work. I will enter to work with a Sillicon Valley startup based in San Francisco. The tech stack is React, Nextjs, AWS, and a serverless architecture.
JPM is semi remote, and less innovative. The tech stack Java, SpringBoot and AWS. But I'd do more migration tasks, like dockerize projects and pass them to kubernetes. What would you choose?
This is why I secretly avoid 1:1s with my manager!
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I hear it gets better after you retire. I don’t buy it though 😂
Haha fingers crossed then 🤞
Imagine being self taught in a team full of people with a degree and half of them teaching at the university.
Well, that's me, imposter syndrome is there every single day.
Some days I'll just sit there, looking at the screen unable to do anything, because I think it's too complicated or that I'm not capable of doing it. And then, I end up doing the task in half the time I sized it.
Which is great and helps me realize I'm not a imposter, but still I don't like it, because I always size *2, just in case the imposter strikes
Something like this
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Ah the og power move 😂
I haven’t seen the light at the end of the tunnel. But I think it helps if you look at it as a challenge that keeps you pushing yourself towards getting better at your job. Just like every time you feel job insecurity you scramble to take on more and do better at work.
I have found Simon Sinek's book "The Infinite Game" to be very helpful. It helped me re frame my thinking about my career. Have a look
I don't think you ever do. I think it's something you have to constantly keep fighting.
Therapy. Lots, and lots, and LOTS of therapy.
Sometimes I get a wave of that, then I look back at the things I've done. The general idea is that if my project is going well and everyone is happy with my work, then I am in the right person for the right job. Yes, sometimes it gets hard, sometimes things go over my head, but why am I here if not to learn.
Remind myself the opposite is far worse: that a person is *certain* of *everything* and cannot be taught/shown anything new.
Lean into it. Adopt an attitude of continuous feedback and learning, know what your team/company/project mates think of your performance and capabilities and try to improve. Seek opportunities to learn and grow on and off the job. What feels like faking it on the inside can look like a person that puts themselves in growth situations on the outside. Coupled with alignment on your actual performance this can be quite powerful.
I think in an industry as fast moving as ours, it has become increasingly more common to experience imposter syndrome. I think talking about it with peers helps quite a bit
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Therapy 😬
I'm not over it, but being in a position of leadership and mentorship helps with the impostor syndrome I felt from when my work was mostly manual and automated testing.
"I did that, I get that, I'm not doing it so much now because I'm trusted and respected enough to be placed in my current position"
So I think you don't get over it, you get through it.
But I still have impostor syndrome about my current role. 🙃
I'm not sure that you ever really do. I just turned down a better position because of an overwhelming sense of dread that I would be spending all my free hours researching what I was supposed to do, even though I essentially have 10 YOE in every aspect of it already.
Stay at it long enough and you'll get over it.
Loads of good stuff and I am building the habit of embracing her. She shows me that I'm growing, that I'm learning, that I'm a little fish in a bigger pond, and that this is a good time to care for myself.
Recently I was welcomed into a new level of success based on my coaching clients' feedback and the results I create. I freaked the F out. Tears, joy, whining, fear, both wanting to dive in a disappear... the entire basket of human experience.
And then I remembered that this is an awesome chance to help more women in tech, that my 'imposter was showing me areas to grow. So I continue to say thank you, feel the feels and be brave no matter what.
Go work with some people out of your profession. Collaborate with some contractors on your house. Or maybe go do volunteer work to build something or run emergency communications. Your imposter syndrome will evaporate as you try and bring "regular people" up to speed.
Just be more confident when you know yourself that you worked hard for what you accomplished. If not, don't let it sync in and make sure to recognize those who played major role in your accomplishment.