The Impostor Syndrome

Impostor syndrome Developer life Team dynamics Burnout Tech industry New hire Workload Software engineering

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The Impostor Syndrome

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OMG, the CRUSHING REALITY of tech jobs in four tiny panels! 😭 First day: you're dragging a BOULDER of responsibilities while sweating buckets. Then the team lead introduces the shiny new hire who's all "excited for opportunities" while you're LITERALLY DYING. They promise the newbie will "help with your load" and what happens? Now you're BOTH crushed under separate boulders! The tech industry doesn't distribute workload—it just finds more rocks to drop on innocent developers! The circle of suffering continues, and the only thing getting lighter is your will to live! Welcome to software engineering, where your reward for hard work is... MORE HARD WORK!

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