A couple of takes regarding this from a programmer (who, naturally, is extremely neurotic about his skills):
- There is no single skill that defines your value
- You are probably not even aware of all the things you excell at, because these things seem the easiest to you
- Social intelligence is extremely important. You can’t do shit alone, and even if you can, you need to sell it to someone
- You don’t need to be the best to be extremely good at something. Being in the top 10% means there are countless people at least as good as you, yet 90% are worse
- The hardest things require a good team, not a good person
- A good team is more than the sum of its parts. Supporting some genius can make you 200% as productive as you would normally be, because they can direct your skills to the right places at the right time, or clear roadblocks that woud take you forever
My face when someone who is nowhere near as good as me making more money at it.
As a SWE I often get both ends of the imposter syndrome spectrum. Like this one super smart person is out of a job and this other one that provides negative value has 4x my salary smh…
Stop attacking middle managers, they obviously are needed.
Means you still have potential for growth :)
There’s also infinite potential to get worse!
I mean, I get that it can make you insecure but you really don’t have to drink piss about it.
That part’s just for fun.
This also goes the same to people from the same field thinking they’re better than everyone. Damn bro we’re here to make a living i ain’t got no time with your dog eat dog bullshit.
I’m a jack of all trades. I can be pretty good at just about anything I do. I have never been close to the best at anything. That’s okay. The OP might be spot on, depicting a person not caring, because what others are capable of really has no bearing on you. If anything, you can only benefit by surrounding yourself in people who are “better” than you.
If someone’s better than me I at least want to see them work hard at it so I don’t feel quite so bad 😭
Do you people excel in something? Wow!
Well, relatively speaking.
Compared to how garbage my other skills are.
Like when someone sends you a 500MB Excel file and M365 (32bit) on your 64bit work computer (where all your other apps are 64bit) won’t open it and IT doesn’t want to upgrade M365 because some add-ins they haven’t made a list of won’t work if they do?
Sometimes I just can’t excel…
When they do “xlookup” instead of “vlookup”
Index+Match is clearly superior and I will not be taking further questions
Reject modernity; embrace tradition.
Uniquely, index match turns a reference to the entire row/column which in the right hands is a hell of a lot more useful.
My hero
“I” is a whole column in Excel, not a single field! :)
