Imposter syndrome.
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My company hosted a conference for our resellers and demanding customers, and we gave presentations on what's new and great with the software we create. (Answer - everything, especially the bits I wrote ;P ) After the intro, I gave the first presentation. I felt like I did an OK job at best - bad pacing at the start, forgot some highlights along the way, so I had to go back and fill in gaps - but afterwards I had great feedback. Aboout a third of the attendees came up and complimented me on it. They're not going to come up and tell me I sucked (OK, one might), but they didn't need to say nice things. Partly bragging, but mostly pointing out how perspective can be really different about the same event. Iain. ps, the company I work for now asked me to come and talk about working for them on the strength of my codeproject presence. Be nice, and write helpful articles, and Karma works! That was a fun backwards interview. "So, tell me why I should come and work for you..."
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
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My company hosted a conference for our resellers and demanding customers, and we gave presentations on what's new and great with the software we create. (Answer - everything, especially the bits I wrote ;P ) After the intro, I gave the first presentation. I felt like I did an OK job at best - bad pacing at the start, forgot some highlights along the way, so I had to go back and fill in gaps - but afterwards I had great feedback. Aboout a third of the attendees came up and complimented me on it. They're not going to come up and tell me I sucked (OK, one might), but they didn't need to say nice things. Partly bragging, but mostly pointing out how perspective can be really different about the same event. Iain. ps, the company I work for now asked me to come and talk about working for them on the strength of my codeproject presence. Be nice, and write helpful articles, and Karma works! That was a fun backwards interview. "So, tell me why I should come and work for you..."
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
I've done that on more than one occasion, it does your self belief a lot of good when you think it was bad and yet you receive praise. On Saturday, as an example, there was the family party at Mrs Wife's work and the kids did lots of little acts - singing, poetry, music and my Ickles did a puppet show. After they were done they sat down next to me, close to tears, worried that they'd got it all wrong. This was in contrast to the comments afterwards, when everyone said it was great and for many the best part of the day. I thought they were very good - but they are mine - and some could have praised them because Mrs Wife is the boss, but on the whole I think the praise was genuine.
speramus in juniperus
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My company hosted a conference for our resellers and demanding customers, and we gave presentations on what's new and great with the software we create. (Answer - everything, especially the bits I wrote ;P ) After the intro, I gave the first presentation. I felt like I did an OK job at best - bad pacing at the start, forgot some highlights along the way, so I had to go back and fill in gaps - but afterwards I had great feedback. Aboout a third of the attendees came up and complimented me on it. They're not going to come up and tell me I sucked (OK, one might), but they didn't need to say nice things. Partly bragging, but mostly pointing out how perspective can be really different about the same event. Iain. ps, the company I work for now asked me to come and talk about working for them on the strength of my codeproject presence. Be nice, and write helpful articles, and Karma works! That was a fun backwards interview. "So, tell me why I should come and work for you..."
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
Congratulations, Iain !
"What Turing gave us for the first time (and without Turing you just couldn't do any of this) is he gave us a way of thinking about and taking seriously and thinking in a disciplined way about phenomena that have, as I like to say, trillions of moving parts. Until the late 20th century, nobody knew how to take seriously a machine with a trillion moving parts. It's just mind-boggling." Daniel C. Dennett