Take Advantage of Intern Impostor Syndrome – @lachlanjc/notebook
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Post by Lachlan Campbell on December 9, 2020 on their personal Notebook blog.
Take advantage of intern impostor syndrome Experiencing impostor syndrome is often the nature of internships—you end up feeling unprepared because, well, everyone around you has been doing this work for years. If you already knew how to do everything & were experienced doing it, you’d have been hired full-time already—the whole point of an internship is to learn & grow in a real, professional environment. I got my first internship shortly after building my first app, at a company called Highrise than spun out of Basecamp (makers of HEY). I was working primarily with someone I super looked up t
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