i just made this right now, after trembling at my first professional correspondence with an old highschool friend.
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I’ll just put this here: https://piped.video/watch?v=kcfRe15I47I
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You’re welcome!
We don’t know shit. It’s just some of us are better at pretending otherwise. Just do your best OP.
Nobody knows everything, but everybody knows something.
No I don’t
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.
Do you know that?
This applies to any career, I think.
If this feeling ever goes away, you’ve become over confident and will get back to it eventually.
Even when you finally think you understand how something works, it’s only temporary. Give it enough time and you’ll look back at mysterious code you wrote years ago and think “Wow, they sure knew what they were doing!”
Dw you’ll get there :)
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.
Eventually you’ll realize those aren’t mutually exclusive.
Don’t worry, it’s both
Not being sure about that is the essence of impostor syndrome.
Both! You’re probably a lot better than you give yourself credit for but also haven’t made enough mistakes yet to see the error of your code
We all are. Even the tech lead at the top of your program is only good at what he’s good at (yes he, you know how this industry be.) 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
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.
Just noticed this, fair play to you! Sorry for the misunderstanding :)
As a female tech lead, its comforting to know I don’t exist!
There are five levels of competence
- Incompetent and doesn’t know it.
- Incompetent and does know it.
- Competent and doesn’t know it.
- Competent, and knows it.
- Expert, but still often feels clueless.
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.
Psst, don’t tell anyone, but we’re all dumbasses pretending we know shit
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!
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!
And we never stop pretending.
Speak for yourself.
I don’t even pretend.
