Today I’d like to revisit imposter syndrome. I think it is getting better.
My brother is a software engineer. I told him the other day that I was feeling inept and having imposter syndrome. He told me that the feeling never goes away, you just feel inept in different ways. That was strangely reassuring to me. Since last writing about imposter syndrome I am feeling more confident in my abilities as a developer. The more I dig into this project, the more I am learning, not only about software, but about my process for learning. I realize that I learn by really reading documentation and following along with tutorials and/or example code. This project is a short period of time to both learn new technology and produce software, so it’s pushing the boundaries of what I can actually accomplish in the time I have. However, knowing that I can learn, and it just takes time is reassuring.
As we get closer to the end of this project, my imposter syndrome is getting slowly better, and I think that is an accomplishment in and of itself!
