{"id":537,"date":"2020-02-28T16:41:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T16:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/?p=537"},"modified":"2020-02-28T16:42:27","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T16:42:27","slug":"consulting-101-imposter-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/28\/consulting-101-imposter-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Consulting 101 &#8211; Imposter Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a>Imposter Syndrome<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As time passes and you get more experience under your belt,\nyou will find yourself answering questions and leading meetings like you have\nbeen working in the client\u2019s industry for decades. At this point, as you self-reflect\non the flight back home, you may get hit with a feeling of anxiety known as\nimposter syndrome. What makes you the expert? Are you really as knowledgeable\nas everyone thinks you are? Am I an imposter, a fraud, a con man? A Jack of No Trades,\na Master of None\u2026just faking it and fooling everyone at a billable rate I do\nnot deserve. This feeling is common in many consultants due to the high\nvelocity required to switch roles and learn new businesses, processes and\ntechnologies. It is completely normal to feel the self-doubt and the inability\nto appreciate your own skill and knowledge. In consulting, when you start a new\nproject, you will have to dance the dance while you get comfortable and get\nyour feet under you, but drawing the line of when you transition from not\nknowing to knowing can create a false insecurity from time to time. Remember to\ntake a step back and give your skills of a smart, adaptive and creative\nconsulting credit for being as good as they really are. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you interested in starting a career in consulting? Be\nsure do read the full book <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/38wE3AO\">Jack of all Trades\nMaster of Some; An Introduction to Consulting<\/a> available on Amazon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imposter Syndrome As time passes and you get more experience under your belt, you will find yourself answering questions and leading meetings like you have been working in the client\u2019s industry for decades. At this point, as you self-reflect on the flight back home, you may get hit with a feeling of anxiety known as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book","category-consulting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"http:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions\/538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}