Thank you so much for posting this. I developed a bad habit of avoiding admissions of ignorance at the very start of my career because I felt shunned or slight

Thank you so much for posting this. I developed a bad habit of avoiding admissions of ignorance at the very start of my career because I felt shunned or slighted when I was honest about my lack of knowledge. It was terrible. For a long time I felt trapped, I felt like I had to lie or mislead to be taken seriously and that very lying hurt my ability to learn more. If someone at the start of their career asked me about having this problem now I'd instinctively tell her or him that it's not worth working with the people you find yourself being dishonest around. But how do you find the good people? It's hard, and it's when you are least experienced that you will have the most trouble differentiating between the knowledgeable and the hangers on. This is a huge huge problem in our industry. And I think a lot of it stems from the fact that 3 years ago when I knew nothing but the HTML & CSS I picked up on hobby projects and a couple college CS classes, what was I? I was a web developer. What am I now after 3 years of real projects, working with devs that know far more than I do, reading a ton, going to talks, and taking on increasingly more responsibility on projects? I'm still a web developer. In that context it's very challenging to be the person who is new to the field because everyone wants you to be the expert, and can be mean when you're not.