How About You Just Fire Me Then

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How About You Just Fire Me Then

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When your inner monologue goes from "I don't know what I'm doing" to "Wait, what if I actually don't know what I'm doing?" That's not imposter syndrome anymore—that's your brain executing a recursive self-doubt function with no base case! It's like when you've been faking your way through a codebase for so long that you start wondering if Stack Overflow should charge you rent. The shower thoughts hit different when you realize you've been copying and pasting for three years and still can't explain how that one function works.

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