I was familiar with the impostor syndrome and it accompanies me constantly. I try not to get too discouraged, but it seems to me that I will never be enough.
I keep studying and studying but I always forget the basic concepts and this often comes out during technical interviews where sometimes I can't answer the simplest questions even though I'm not really a newbie.
I look at my colleagues who always seem to be one step ahead of me and always manage to understand everything with ease.
I always have a thousand ideas to develop side projects and I try to write on the blog, but in the end, I always leave everything in half, frightened by the idea of not being prepared enough to complete the project.
Sometimes I feel so inadequate that I think it's better to change job.
Don't give up on this if you enjoy the work. It is tough and there is a lot to learn, but making any progress and writing any code makes you a developer. The more experience you get, it will get a little easier and you should feel more confident over time. It's just important to recognize this feeling may not go away and have a way to cope with it when you do feel it coming on.
Technical interviews are hard. We get so nervous in interviews that our minds just forget things we know. It's so easy to forget in an interview just to remember it as you are walking out of the interview.
If you've done enough interviews, you may have taken the Fizzbuz test. As a senior developer, I failed that test. It was a mixture of nerves and not remembering how to calculate multiples since I don't work with that a lot.
Completing side projects and write for blogs is also really tough. That is putting ourselves out there even more than interviews or regular jobs. Just try to take small steps and slowly get more comfortable. Recognize that any views, comments, likes, etc. are a sign you are doing a good job.
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I was familiar with the impostor syndrome and it accompanies me constantly. I try not to get too discouraged, but it seems to me that I will never be enough.
I keep studying and studying but I always forget the basic concepts and this often comes out during technical interviews where sometimes I can't answer the simplest questions even though I'm not really a newbie.
I look at my colleagues who always seem to be one step ahead of me and always manage to understand everything with ease.
I always have a thousand ideas to develop side projects and I try to write on the blog, but in the end, I always leave everything in half, frightened by the idea of not being prepared enough to complete the project.
Sometimes I feel so inadequate that I think it's better to change job.
Don't give up on this if you enjoy the work. It is tough and there is a lot to learn, but making any progress and writing any code makes you a developer. The more experience you get, it will get a little easier and you should feel more confident over time. It's just important to recognize this feeling may not go away and have a way to cope with it when you do feel it coming on.
Technical interviews are hard. We get so nervous in interviews that our minds just forget things we know. It's so easy to forget in an interview just to remember it as you are walking out of the interview.
If you've done enough interviews, you may have taken the Fizzbuz test. As a senior developer, I failed that test. It was a mixture of nerves and not remembering how to calculate multiples since I don't work with that a lot.
Completing side projects and write for blogs is also really tough. That is putting ourselves out there even more than interviews or regular jobs. Just try to take small steps and slowly get more comfortable. Recognize that any views, comments, likes, etc. are a sign you are doing a good job.