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Imposter syndrome is real (Original Post)
Mr. Scorpio
Aug 2022
OP
It's why I retired at 55. I felt like the bottom could drop at any moment ...
marble falls
Aug 2022
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blm
(113,061 posts)1. Totally, Mr S.
Wicked Blue
(5,832 posts)2. Hey, wait a minnit! I'M the real Mr. Scorpio
Who R U?
marble falls
(57,083 posts)3. It's why I retired at 55. I felt like the bottom could drop at any moment ...
... what I found out after I decompressed for a few months, is I was very good at what I did, and my superiors were the ones hiding huge gaps in their own expertise and I never realized it until I got some distance and some good money consulting to them on contract.
Scrivener7
(50,949 posts)4. I think every woman my age - we who began work in the 80s when women
were just beginning to break the glass - carried a fear of being fired and becoming destitute. No matter how obviously successful we were. When I was younger, I saved obsessively against that kind of disaster.
On the bright side, the obsessive saving habit allowed me to retire at 59.