Oh poop
At my job, people bring problems to me to solve. Sometimes I know what to do and I think, "cool, I know what I am doing" (which can be kind of weird because sometimes I don't know where my solutions come from, or how I ended up actually knowing stuff....)and it feels good to be competent and understand why I was hired. Then sometimes, I have no idea what to do, and I think "pretend like you know what you are doing until you can figure something out".
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And here is someone coming to me for a way to deal with it and essentially there isn't much that can be done, but I do what is doable. It is just a shift having people depend on me (in a work context, but not just me, the "treatment team") rather than me depend on people. I did supervising work with one of my research jobs, but that was dealing with data, not human beings, so if I messed up in my direction it wasn't as big a deal...I am just really, really, really, glad there are people that I work with that I can go to and get help from (and usually not feel too embarassed) and that I am part of a "team" and really people aren't depending on just me.
.....
And here is someone coming to me for a way to deal with it and essentially there isn't much that can be done, but I do what is doable. It is just a shift having people depend on me (in a work context, but not just me, the "treatment team") rather than me depend on people. I did supervising work with one of my research jobs, but that was dealing with data, not human beings, so if I messed up in my direction it wasn't as big a deal...I am just really, really, really, glad there are people that I work with that I can go to and get help from (and usually not feel too embarassed) and that I am part of a "team" and really people aren't depending on just me.