Impostor Roster

Suffering from Impostor Syndrome? You're not alone...

All the people posting below feel like impostors at times, too!

So read these posts, add one of your own and get over it!

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• Someone in the Frontend Dev field for 180 months still can't do regular expressions.
• Someone in the Software Engineering field for 60 months still can't do the demo for the client without the the feeling that i was cheating ale the years.
• Someone in the Law field for 75 months still can't write a contract without a template and google.
• Someone in the Java field for 61 months still can't properly design an application without spring framework.
• Someone in the Experimental Physics field for 132 months still can't multiply three numbers in less than 20 seconds or remember the formula for solving a quadratic equation.
• Someone in the Php Developer For 5 Years field for 60 months still can't remember core php functionality.
• Someone in the Rare Books field for 120 months still can't read roman numerals.
• Someone in the Art History field for 50 months still can't i still cant remember what is the difference between manet and monet and why they are important at all.
• Someone in the Custodian field for 21 months still can't death date of the writer which museum is about.
• Someone in the Software Engineering field for 84 months still can't remember the switch syntax for any language.
• Someone in the Web Development field for 15 months still can't shake the feeling that i am a brand new dev.
• Someone in the Senior Technical Lead field for 120 months still can't write anything more than hacky code.
• Someone in the Software Engineering field for 96 months still can't bring himself to write code for more than an hour a day.
• Someone in the It Security field for 48 months still can't do networking properly.
• Someone in the Web field for 276 months still can't remember which way round the parameters to insertbefore go.
• Someone in the Ruby On Rails field for 48 months still can't write any form tags without looking up the method signatures.
• Someone in the Software Engineering field for 180 months still can't write a regex without looking up the syntax every time.
• Someone in the Perl field for 24 months still can't remember how to init an arrayref.
• Someone in the Web And System Development field for 72 months still can't develop a nicely designed website.
• Someone in the Law field for 2 months still can't remember definitions of basic terms.
• Someone in the Software Development field for 48 months still can't remember the syntax for diff output and how to tell which file is which.
• Someone in the Software Engineering field for 120 months still can't remember the syntax of the switch statement.
• Someone in the Systemadmin field for 192 months still can't perl.
• Someone in the Human field for 312 months still can't get laid.
• Someone in the Impostor field for 200 months still can't impost.
• Someone in the Software Development field for 120 months still can't put a table in a word document.
• Someone in the Software Engineering field for 30 months still can't understand how python works.
• Someone in the Navigation field for 12 months still can't pick a good landmark for dead reckoning.
• Someone in the Startups field for 9 months still can't finish the mvp.
• Someone in the Programming field for 96 months still can't develop a react app without following tutorials.

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