I’ve never been a reporter.
You might think this is how one gets into journalism, but there are a few roads. Mine was columnist, copyed, opinion editor, running the fucking paper.
As I start my third week as a reporter, there’s much that is just strange. My reporters never deigned to tell me I was wrong, but I frequently tell my editor as much.
“Look, we don’t have a story here until DOE links what was in the press release” is apparently competence. Like, this is just obvious. No, I don’t need praise for pointing out a glaring hole in a story.
I just wake up and am myself, and I’m somehow paid for this. Given all the bullshit surrounding corporate roles, I’m left agape at how this still exists and my ability to just slide into something I’ve never done.
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I just wake up and am myself, and I’m somehow paid for this. Given all the bullshit surrounding corporate roles, I’m left agape at how this still exists and my ability to just slide into something I’ve never done.
That just sounds like normal imposter syndrome to me. You’re questioning why you are allowed to do something that youre competent to do.
If you didn’t have imposter syndrome you wouldnt be questioning it.
I’d call that being a cocky know-it-all
I was angling for a coding role in my last job search. I am not in the area code of a know-it-all there. But here, I just apply 26 years of experience to determine news value.
hubris?
It’s only hubris when it leads to your downfall.
theres time ;)
Dunning-Kruger effect?
Dunning-Kruger applies when you aren’t already competent.
It does work both ways, as the theory states that competent individuals were more humble and underestimated their skills.
This.
Is it possible that the only other workers your boss has to compare you to are nepo-babies? By comparison anyone with a basic ability to reason will seem like a genius, haha. Not knocking your competence, journalism as a profession just seems to chase everyone else off.
Imposter syndrome is rooted in being qualified, but not being confident that one is qualified. Qualified includes being able to learn as experience is gained.
So the opposite requires some level of confidence, so it depends on whether being qualified matters.
If the person is qualified and confident, then confidence.
If they think they are qualified but aren’t, then overconfidence. I consider this to be the opposite of imposter syndrome.
I have been trying for so many jobs, and I never qualified in tech. I’m trying to determine what this now looks like. Journalism is this sort of thing where there is a substantial wall at roughly Sept. 10, 2001.
From here, those aware of how shit worked up to there was not ideal.
I consider the opposite of imposter syndrome to be when you feel qualified but everyone else thinks you’re an imposter.
Arrogance
Impostor syndrome is feeling like you aren’t qualified for a post that you are.
The opposite, would be feeling like you are qualified for a post you are not.
What you describe, seems like over-competence, rather than either of those. Congrats 🎉
