New clients and impostor syndrome.

As a self-taught freelance web developer-designer with minimum experience and an introvert it's hard to find new clients. Also the impostor syndrome-experience (call it as you want) doesn't help at all :/

Imposter syndrome is real hard.

I find the compsci graduates I’ve met tend not to feel it so much because they have the degree backing, but they’ve also been the ones with the least amount of real world experience / been incapable of actually programming.

Not sure why being self taught and good would lead to feeling like a fraud, but it does sometimes. It’s probably down to the ridiculous stock people seem to put in degrees.

So Relatable...

@Brolls Not sure I agree.

At least from my perspective, degrees aren't worth much. They're annoying to.get, but the classes required to earn it are mostly useless. The degree shows perseverance, a willingness to follow instructions even when they are stupid, and little else.

Being self-taught also shows perseverance, and tends to teach you more useful skills.

However, it does seem that fewer college-grads have less imposter syndrome. Perhaps this is due instead to the type of people it attracts? Having the piece of paper showing your accomplishment would help, but only so much. So idk.

@Root @Brolls I have a Bachelor in computer science but I have almost no experience in web development. Web *design* to be more specific. I’ve never worked as a web developer-designer and I learned everything on my own. Now, because of that, I feel that I don’t have the “right knowledge” to do that job or I don’t know some practical stuff, as I suppose those who have the degrees to prove it already have. I figure things out as I go. I feel that I’m not up to par with those who do this kind of job for years and not because of the lack of experience (that I of course have and they have not) but because I haven’t studied the way they have. Even if practically I may know the same stuff as them right the moment they graduated. In my little head, having the degree is equal to knowledge which I feel I don’t have. And probably Root is right saying that degrees don’t mean much if you can prove your knowledge on the field but my stupid mind sees things differently :/

@SoulSkrix I knooooow!
I have to convince myself of that.

1. For everything that you did that you felt was hard, other people felt was hard.

2. For every challenge you overcome, there are people who gave up and could not overcome

3. The above 2 points don't matter. What matters is how many challenges you have overcome since this time last year.

@SoulSkrix tack så jättemycket min vän 😊