i just made this right now, after trembling at my first professional correspondence with an old highschool friend.

  • MasterBlaster@lemmy.world
    7·
    1 year ago

    There are five levels of competence

    1. Incompetent and doesn’t know it.
    2. Incompetent and does know it.
    3. Competent and doesn’t know it.
    4. Competent, and knows it.
    5. Expert, but still often feels clueless.
    • Weirdfish@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      I have 20 years experience, just cracked a project I’ve been working on for almost three years, and I still hesitate to consider myself an expert.

      Now, I’ll tell any lay person who will listen that I’m an expert, but man, some days I just feel clueless.

      I find the biggest issue I run into is lack of a peer group. I work in a large IS department, but other than one guy at my last company who works with a different language, I have no one to talk shop with.