Yes yes yes! I feel this exactly in my job daily - some days worse than others. One project I'm on, I've taken for this production release from a woman who has been working on it for not kidding, 20+ years. So when there are technical questions asked and I'm expected to know it and I don't, I feel like a failure. But I have to remind myself I'm not her. Luckily she's stepped back in to help with it, but so often I feel like I'm going to be found out and fired (which wouldn't happen but still).
I just never feel like I know anything, when I'm surrounded by people who seem to know everything and it makes it hard to believe I can do a good job.
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Yes yes yes! I feel this exactly in my job daily - some days worse than others. One project I'm on, I've taken for this production release from a woman who has been working on it for not kidding, 20+ years. So when there are technical questions asked and I'm expected to know it and I don't, I feel like a failure. But I have to remind myself I'm not her. Luckily she's stepped back in to help with it, but so often I feel like I'm going to be found out and fired (which wouldn't happen but still).
I just never feel like I know anything, when I'm surrounded by people who seem to know everything and it makes it hard to believe I can do a good job.