I see you over there. Faking it. Being an IMPOSTER.
I felt like an imposter waltzing in from my small manufacturing jobs to the big ol’ world of corporate America. I could barely get a recruiter to give me the time of day and 18 months later, I was being recruited by Microsoft. What just happened?
It’s scary. I felt like an imposter going on those interviews. I felt like an imposter walking into those big corporate jobs. Most of my career was spent working at a family-owned place with less than 50 employees. I’m small fry!
I totally felt like an imposter making more money than I’d ever seen in my entire career. Who I was to get paid like this? I was just a single mom scraping by for years. Now, I’m commanding six-figure salaries because… because what? because I said so? What an imposter.