I have been working in IT, (cyber security specifically) for about 5 years now, I know that I am competent, at least far more so than most of the people that I work with, But I feel like I do now know anything about anything.
there is just so much to know, I can never learn it all, it gets a little frustrating sometimes, any oldfags with years and years of experience able to speak to this point?
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Socrates exclaimed, "The only thing I know is that I know nothing."
The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
It never goes away. If it does that just means you've become arrogant and are probably doing poor work. It's a predictable way for people to feel when they work in a vast and rapidly changing field.
what's the point of pursuing things then?
To become wise.
you picked a career that is entirely based on doing mundane bullshit. you don't feel accomplished because you don't accomplish anything. it's not 'imposter syndrome,' you're just a failure.
It never goes away, you just accept it and become humble about your skills.
But user, in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
>inb4 what’s the point of becoming wise?
To get closer to God.
>The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
Not OP, but this makes me feel better.
t. failed Sec+ for the third time
checkmate atheists
I actually like this way of thinking about it, when I started I didnt even know what I didnt know, now I have a pretty good idea at least
>my job revolves around plugging shit in and googling network fixes
>why do i feel unfulfilled?
Pursuing knowledge and satisfying your curiosity is the point. You're discovering new things, filled with wonder. You're discovering meaning within the nuances of technology.
You are but a camel. Unburden yourself and become a lion. Surpass the dragon, and become a child.
Also money is pretty sick
god isn't real
the christfag shit is satire
so be a perpetual manchild?
see matt.might.net
Even with a PhD, you realize an almost eternity of knowledge that will never reach you by diving so deep into a specialized field.
>You are but a camel. Unburden yourself and become a lion. Surpass the dragon, and become a child.
What the fuck am I reading?
>matt.might.net
Thanks fren, I like this way of thinking about it.
Omg I must be a fucking genious
To become god of your own life.
Om mani padme hum.
No, but you can learn to relax and have more self-confidence in your abilities.
Found the blue collar boomer
i think its Carl Jung
It goes away when you work on a team of complete morons.
Theres always a man that knows more than you so dont try to learn "everything" for no other reason than insecurity. If you know how to do your job properly then its good enough.
True. If anything this means you should do your best to know as little as possible.
wise words here.
Not really, no. What Aristotle meant was that for every fact you learn, for every book you read, you open context to another dozen books, another dozen lives, another dozen places. You are creating a semantic web in your mind, the bigger the web, the more unmet connections there are. A wider web in your mind is a more alive mind. You are drawing the wrong conclusion.
nice projection bro
your incentive for learning new things may be insecurity, but for others -- who aren't brainlets -- is to satiate intellectual curiosity.
Nah, why? I've been doing various computer things for 10-30 years and still don't know half of what's to know.
Computers are a man-made giant mess at every level. Just add to it so the next person can feel even more helpless in spite of your best attempts to keep it simple, eh. It's how it works.
It goes away the moment you start to fuck around and do not give a shit anymore. You know they won't just easily fire you without a warning and you sit around the whole day doing not much.
Just enjoy the time.
Imposter Syndrome doesn't exist but screaching feminists never go away.
It gets worse, with time. 11 years working, and at this point I feel like I know less than what I did when I was in high school.
Nietzsche, Zarathustra.
Most people are idiots faking it and all stressed out because of it.
The other at best 20% (the vital few) are confident they at least know enough to figure out the things they don't know fairly quickly.
It's true in every field and industry.
Never since you're an imposter.
It goes away if you actually become competent
Clearly you haven't
>But I feel like I do now know anything about anything
good. this is what makes you stand out user.
you don't have impostor syndrome, you really are incompetent.
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If you are aware of it you can control it. By doing it continually it becomes a habit and your syndrome goes away.
It's totally fine bro. I work in a related industry and my entire department obviously feels that way. Even though we all have similar backgrounds and experience, anytime anyone of us shows off some python or shell script or perl lines we wrote, the first words are almost always "I know it's shit but check this out...".
The point being, that those of us who have serious IT or dev experience, know more than like 98% of the population, yet - as several other anons here have mentioned - the fields are always in flux, and everyone has different expertise. So to feel like your work and internal knowledge base is inferior to another's is only natural.
For instance, I have a lot more experience with perl and interactive shell scripts than the dude who sits next to me, but he can do things with python and lua that I can't dream of (yet). The guy who sits across the room from that guy might not know fuckall about python or lua, but he can pump out ncurses interfaces and concise C programs that neither of us can.
Someone will always be better than you at something, and odds are - if you're always improving - you'll always better than someone else at something else (even though you might not know it). It's just the way things work, and it means you're not lacking self-awareness, which is a big part of what separates us from smoothbrains, subliterates, and animals.
If you're actually good you can pick up anything relatively quickly
Don't disagree, but you still have to care enough to grow, and starting off from a place of humility and curiosity is always a good thing.
how's it working in infosec? just started school for a degree in that, please god tell me it's not as boring as some of the other anons are making it sounds
