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At one job I had, everyone was a PhD or a postdoc, and I hadn't completed my BSc. They offered me 20% more than I would have asked for, and I worked inefficient
by sshine 8y ago
At one job I had, everyone was a PhD or a postdoc, and I hadn't completed my BSc. They offered me 20% more than I would have asked for, and I worked inefficiently because of problems concentrating.
I labeled myself as an impostor in this situation and eventually quit.
The article doesn't argue that impostor syndrome doesn't exist, but that the reader shouldn't use the term. That if you frame your situation differently, you can have a more positive outlook.
My real problem was that I had problems concentrating - a problem that I still have to a lesser extent - but the scenario back then made it harder for me to acknowledge this. "It's because the others are better than you." Well, duh, maybe they were. But you're good, too, if you can concentrate.