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Feeling Like a Fraud on the Job

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

Phoenix666 writes:

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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• Re:Not to threadjack, but this isn't my situation Re:Not to threadjack, but this isn't my situation (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @08:30PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @08:30PM (#259068)

  Yeah, we are here. Time for a new job. In the meantime make yourself a new project. Finish it. I did this so often at work that it became my job to do cool side projects.

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• Re:Not to threadjack, but this isn't my situation (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @12:13AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @12:13AM (#259184)

  I would stay at the job if the environment and pay was decent. Its hard to beat getting paid to work on personal projects.

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