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Mr. Scorpio

(73,772 posts) Thu Aug 4, 2022, 05:03 PM Aug 2022

Imposter syndrome is real

Just saying.

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Imposter syndrome is real (Original Post) Mr. Scorpio Aug 2022 OP

Totally, Mr S. blm Aug 2022 #1

Hey, wait a minnit! I'M the real Mr. Scorpio Wicked Blue Aug 2022 #2

It's why I retired at 55. I felt like the bottom could drop at any moment ... marble falls Aug 2022 #3

I think every woman my age - we who began work in the 80s when women Scrivener7 Aug 2022 #4

blm

(114,656 posts)

1. Totally, Mr S.

Reply to Mr. Scorpio (Original post)

Thu Aug 4, 2022, 05:04 PM

Aug 2022

Wicked Blue

(8,866 posts)

2. Hey, wait a minnit! I'M the real Mr. Scorpio

Reply to Mr. Scorpio (Original post)

Thu Aug 4, 2022, 05:10 PM

Aug 2022

Who R U?

marble falls

(71,919 posts)

3. It's why I retired at 55. I felt like the bottom could drop at any moment ...

Reply to Mr. Scorpio (Original post)

Thu Aug 4, 2022, 05:17 PM

Aug 2022

... what I found out after I decompressed for a few months, is I was very good at what I did, and my superiors were the ones hiding huge gaps in their own expertise and I never realized it until I got some distance and some good money consulting to them on contract.

Scrivener7

(59,513 posts)

4. I think every woman my age - we who began work in the 80s when women

Reply to Mr. Scorpio (Original post)

Thu Aug 4, 2022, 05:29 PM

Aug 2022

were just beginning to break the glass - carried a fear of being fired and becoming destitute. No matter how obviously successful we were. When I was younger, I saved obsessively against that kind of disaster.

On the bright side, the obsessive saving habit allowed me to retire at 59.

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