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[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 44 points 10 months ago

My face when someone who is nowhere near as good as me making more money at it.

[-] devfuuu@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

Stop attacking middle managers, they obviously are needed.

[-] isar@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

As a SWE I often get both ends of the imposter syndrome spectrum. Like this one super smart person is out of a job and this other one that provides negative value has 4x my salary smh…

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 10 months ago

Means you still have potential for growth :)

[-] devfuuu@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

There's also infinite potential to get worse!

[-] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

A couple of takes regarding this from a programmer (who, naturally, is extremely neurotic about his skills):

  • There is no single skill that defines your value
  • You are probably not even aware of all the things you excell at, because these things seem the easiest to you
  • Social intelligence is extremely important. You can't do shit alone, and even if you can, you need to sell it to someone
  • You don't need to be the best to be extremely good at something. Being in the top 10% means there are countless people at least as good as you, yet 90% are worse
  • The hardest things require a good team, not a good person
  • A good team is more than the sum of its parts. Supporting some genius can make you 200% as productive as you would normally be, because they can direct your skills to the right places at the right time, or clear roadblocks that woud take you forever
[-] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 17 points 10 months ago

This also goes the same to people from the same field thinking they're better than everyone. Damn bro we're here to make a living i ain't got no time with your dog eat dog bullshit.

[-] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 13 points 10 months ago

I mean, I get that it can make you insecure but you really don't have to drink piss about it.

[-] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

That part's just for fun.

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 11 points 10 months ago

When they do "xlookup" instead of "vlookup"

[-] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 8 points 10 months ago

Index+Match is clearly superior and I will not be taking further questions

[-] Jackinopolis@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Reject modernity; embrace tradition.

Uniquely, index match turns a reference to the entire row/column which in the right hands is a hell of a lot more useful.

[-] FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago
[-] Engywuck@lemmy.zip 10 points 10 months ago

Do you people excel in something? Wow!

[-] wizzor@sopuli.xyz 13 points 10 months ago

Well, relatively speaking.

Compared to how garbage my other skills are.

[-] jdnewmil@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago

Like when someone sends you a 500MB Excel file and M365 (32bit) on your 64bit work computer (where all your other apps are 64bit) won't open it and IT doesn't want to upgrade M365 because some add-ins they haven't made a list of won't work if they do?

Sometimes I just can't excel...

[-] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

I'm a jack of all trades. I can be pretty good at just about anything I do. I have never been close to the best at anything. That's okay. The OP might be spot on, depicting a person not caring, because what others are capable of really has no bearing on you. If anything, you can only benefit by surrounding yourself in people who are "better" than you.

[-] PugJesus@piefed.social 6 points 10 months ago

If someone's better than me I at least want to see them work hard at it so I don't feel quite so bad 😭

[-] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 10 months ago

"I" is a whole column in Excel, not a single field! :)

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