Totally selected the wrong meme for the old title, but here we are.
I actually really like this. I suffer heavily from Imposter Syndrom, and one of the biggest realizations I had was that my new project manager manages to keep his job despite being absolutely horrible at it.
The one previous to him was worse.
Allegedly the only way to get rid of imposter syndrome is to just… do your work/stuff until it goes away.
I’ve been at the same job for 9 years, but I don’t feel any more capable than at the start. I still have no idea what I’m doing while being sure others are constantly judging me. Any day my manager will take me apart to put me on a PIP or outright fire me. I’ve “known” this for years, and I’m as convinced as ever that it will happen eventually, soon even.
Unfortunately it’s a “liars market” in that liars get “whatever” jobs they want, to hell with credentials.
Unfortunately I’m pretty much incapable of bullshitting, I’m honest to a gigantic fault. So many job listings with insane requirements and then people say “just apply anyway.” …no? They’re asking for a thing and I don’t have it. I’m not the kind of person to Google “how to do my job” after I’ve been hired.
I seriously need to get out of my job, but seeing all these “dog shit cleaners. Masters degree required. Pay: $2/hr” is insanely depressing…
Most jobs are terrible at distinguishing between requirements, responsibilities, and nice to haves. Most requirements are actually responsibilities which means you’ll need to learn those skills but don’t need to already know them. As long as you think you can pick them up you should be fine.
My team is currently hiring, and I got to listen in on the conversation with HR when they were developing the job posting. The job posting includes requirements that the team knows they are unlikely to find, especially finding all of them in a single candidate. The posting calls them requirements, but really it’s more of a wish list. If you come across listings where you meet half of their requirements (wish list), and think you can learn some of the others, you should apply.
Apply. Just be honest on your resume and honest in the interview. Source: I sometimes hire, but do not write the job postings.
I would, but now there’s free LLM’s that can do what I do literally for free and 1000x faster.
Past that, I have no marketable skills that a modern LLM doesn’t also have, and better. I very much doubt I’m alone in this. Between now and say, two to five years tops, my employers will know it too.
What’s an LLM?
Learned language model- it’s the technical term for things like ChatGPT or bing search. They basically predict what comes next in a form of advanced auto-completion.
Large Language Model*
File LLMs under “confidently doing it wrong”. They don’t know anything, they just parrot what was scraped off the internet
I knew plenty of people that also do just that
Not disagreeing, but what does that help the thousands who will still lose their jobs regardless?
It doesn’t.
Unionize. Individually your power to change things is weak, together your power is strong. The only thing power listens to is a greater power and the reality is that your bosses likely rely on you more than you rely on them.
I guarantee you do have useful skills and that they are better than what an LLM can produce. Don’t listen to the hype that will be used to justify taking your ability to live from you in exchange for higher profits.
Jokes on you, OP’s job is parroting things that were scraped off the internet!
Yeah, but when I do it it’s funny because it’s a reference
Funnily enough, that’s also what a large portion of people do too, just regurgitate stuff without comprehending its meaning.
Lots of people get phds while just being able to answer textbook questions, start questioning them to get them to apply that knowledge and it’s just air. It’s literally what people call “book smart” vs “street smart”.
We never needed LLMs to do that computationally.
Saying things confidently incorrect is like my whole identity.
I will make sure to watch out for your other comments on this site ☠
Nice, preemptive block incoming. <3
You said that fairly confidently… do I believe you or not?
It’s pretty freeing to realize that most people have no idea what’s going on and that includes who you may perceive is at a high level. (Almost) Everyone has to report to someone and once you get past three levels from the top, it’s like playing a game of telephone where the people at the top start with gibberish in the first place.
Do your best, learn every day (or don’t), and don’t be so hard on yourself. Nobody has any idea what’s going on.
Everyone has to answer to someone.
Underlings to their managers, managers to senior management, senior management to C-suite, CEO has to answer to the board and shareholders.
As I get older I think I get less confident in others faster than I get more confident in myself.
I know my worth!
…it’s less. As in: worthless. Lol
