Impostor Syndrome: The Unwanted Career Companion

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Impostor Syndrome: The Unwanted Career Companion

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Five years of professional coding experience and still googling how to center a div? Completely normal. The eternal impostor syndrome hits different in tech—where yesterday's expert is today's confused newbie thanks to some random framework update. You could be architecting complex systems by day and questioning if you even belong in the industry by night. The cognitive dissonance is just part of the job description they conveniently left out of the offer letter.

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