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posted by janrinok on Thursday November 05 2015, @07:45AM   Printer-friendly
from the I-used-to-be-an-astronaut dept.

Most people advance through their careers with legitimate training, and yet many professionals may still feel about as ill-qualified for their jobs as Demara was for his various "vocations."

Indeed, psychological scientists have explored the "impostor phenomenon," a term first coined in the 1970s to describe the intellectual and professional fraud that many high-achievers feel they're committing. Despite academic and career success, these individuals believe that others overestimate their abilities and will eventually discover their incompetence.

A team of Belgian psychological scientists recently set out to explore the impostor phenomenon (IP) more closely, and found that it correlated with specific personality, emotional, and behavioral traits. Professionals grappling with IP manifest high levels of maladaptive perfectionism and neuroticism, the researchers found. And those individuals tend to be relatively unhappy with their jobs.


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by PizzaRollPlinkett on Thursday November 05 2015, @03:31PM

    by PizzaRollPlinkett (4512) on Thursday November 05 2015, @03:31PM (#258893)

    I've started doing the facade thing because stuff changes so fast that it's not worth my time to bother learning something that is going to be gone in a year or two. The treadmill of churning change is just too fast now in the technology industry. I know if I need to learn something, I can do it, so I just fake it like I know stuff. Most stuff has come and gone before I need to learn it. Used to be that you could know three or four things in great depth (C, Perl, SQL, and C++ or Java) and be able to do almost anything. Now there's a new language, platform, framework, etc every few months. It's just not worth the time learning new things unless you need to or they catch on. A shame, because I got into technology because I enjoyed learning. The trend now, though, is to scrap everything and start over every few years. It's discouraging to learn things you will never master before they're gone.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @03:54PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @03:54PM (#258903)

    I tend to learn the theories behind it. The language/framework is just the minutia. I know how to do X so that it is most efficient, and I know I will need tool Y, and language Z has A that serves as Y, or it doesn't have anything like it but it has B and C that can work as Y, just not as efficiently. You seen one MVC framework, you seen them all. Some lack certain things, others have few pointless additions, but overall it's all the same. When I have to use something particular I pick up the basics in few days and go from there. Luckily for me I have a lot of creative freedom. If I want to use something in particular I'll just tell Management that it is the best tool for the job (usually is), and working with web services you can pretty much add ton of different tech together and it will still work.

    Scrapping everything and starting over? I want to scrap a bunch of legacy systems and redo them. Hopefully I'll get a chance. Older staff tends to not be engineered int he least, it just sorta works and they keep piling things on top of it without wrapping anything with abstraction into reusable and modifiable packages. Which is fine for a system as long as it works. But when new features are requested all the time and you find yourself spending exorbitant amount of time in frustration modifying things in 15 places instead of 1 you kinda have to say it's time to redo this POS.

    I don't really need a facade (other than in Laravel :P ), they assume I am the best person to make sense of it in the room. And I have proven time and again even if I don't know something obscure I can master it and get it done in short order. I realize thou that being in a smaller company is probably the only reason I can operate like this. In a giant corp there would be probably 4 other guys in the room ready to stab me in the back if I said I need time to get started with X. So to each his own.

  • (Score: 2) by urza9814 on Friday November 06 2015, @01:06PM

    by urza9814 (3954) on Friday November 06 2015, @01:06PM (#259409) Journal

    Used to be that you could know three or four things in great depth (C, Perl, SQL, and C++ or Java) and be able to do almost anything. Now there's a new language, platform, framework, etc every few months.

    ...and while everyone else is running around trying to learn the new fad every couple months, you should be sitting there with your C/Perl/SQL/C++/Java getting actual work done. It's not like people have stopped using those. Except maybe at startups.

    I mean if you're doing something where the features of the language actually help, go right ahead. But for 99% of tasks, you probably don't.