Imposter syndrome: You're Not the Only One

I am literally shaking while I type this under the table... …

I am sitting at this dinner with all these people and I feel like a total fake. …

This is probably stupid but am I the only one who feels like a literal hollowed-out shell? …

i’m supposed to be this "senior" manager person at my firm but i feel like a total liar every day. …

It’s that feeling when you're 21 and you’re sitting in a board meeting pretending you care about "quarterly deliverables" while everyone else is twice your age. …

I am sitting here in this tiny apartment in Milan—well, it’s actually a pretty nice studio that the program paid for—and I just feel like a total fraud. …

I entered the corporate sphere again in the late nineties after six years of domesticity. …

I'm 39 and I've spent the last four years and every cent of my savings on this MFA. …

I am looking at my hand on the granite counter and it doesn’t really feel like mine. …

I felt like a SHARK. …

I’ve been at the same desk for 14 years now. …

I’m sitting in my truck right now—the heater’s broken so I’m just shivering and staring at the neon sign for the diner across the street—and I can’t stop thinking about how much of a fucking fraud I… …

You know that feeling when you’re holding something gold and all you can smell is the cheap, metallic rot underneath?

i literally dont know how i got here like how did this become my life... …

Anyone else feel like a total fucking fraud or is it just me...?

I forgot how to write a basic for-loop today in front of the whole team...

Sterling was sitting in the front row, leaning back with that look of detached intellectual superiority he wears like a badge. …

I remember when I started out, my first year at the firm, I felt like a stray dog that somehow got let into a steakhouse. …

I have this box of overpriced invitations sitting on my new quartz countertop and I want to throw them out the window because the light in this place is so good it actually makes me sick. …

I don't know if this makes sense but I've spent my whole life trying to be an artist and now I'm a junior marketing executive which is a title that feels like a joke I'm not in on and I think I just… …