Go stand behind him
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@sebastian-galczynski said in Go stand behind him:
My doubts are less about skills or difficulty, more about value added.
Compare with the other idiots who could theoretically do the job. You know how they're mostly a bunch of stupid, incompetent shit-kickers who make you look good? That's why you're actually worth more than you think.
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@dkf said in Go stand behind him:
@sebastian-galczynski said in Go stand behind him:
My doubts are less about skills or difficulty, more about value added.
Compare with the other idiots who could theoretically do the job. You know how they're mostly a bunch of stupid, incompetent shit-kickers who make you look good? That's why you're actually worth more than you think.
It's amazing how quickly imposter syndrome disappears when you take over maintenance of a project and know how much the original developer got for writing it
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@dkf said in Go stand behind him:
@sebastian-galczynski said in Go stand behind him:
My doubts are less about skills or difficulty, more about value added.
Compare with the other idiots who could theoretically do the job. You know how they're mostly a bunch of stupid, incompetent shit-kickers who make you look good? That's why you're actually worth more than you think.
It still doesn't explain why me and all my teammates are getting paid shitloads per hour each to make specialized Excel spreadsheet (that we don't even know how it should work and have to ask other people about it).
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@dkf Are you saying how much I get paid and my self worth is actually a function of how many incompetent folks I have around me? That's a different way to look at it and it is the only theory that makes sense when it comes to how much am getting paid. I'm not complaining though.
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@stillwater said in Go stand behind him:
@dkf Are you saying how much I get paid and my self worth is actually a function of how many incompetent folks I have around me?
That's generally how social status works. It doesn't matter how much you have as long as you're top 1%.
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Exactly. Competence is relative.
Companies like to think their business requires high-level experts and that their employees are smart, hard-working people.
In practice, neither is true. In most cases, business problems aren't rocket science by a long shot, and have already been solved more than once by others. And lots of employees do... well, let's say "suboptimal" work.
If you're able to:
- search the web for info
- read and understand the documentation of whatever tool(s) you're using
- reason logically
- use common sense
then you're already more qualified than many people, and able to solve lots of problems, even if you know little about the subject. Add actual experience to the mix, and people will think you're an "expert", even if you don't feel like one.
A good cure for thinking you're overpaid is watching a company waste months on trying to fix a problem and still have no results, just because they have no idea of what they're doing. The costs for this are much, much higher than the salary of a single person.
(Of course, neither universities nor companies will tell you that. You have to discover it the hard way.)
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@Zerosquare said in Go stand behind him:
people will think you're an "expert"
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@sebastian-galczynski Those aren't people, those are corpos.
