Imposter Syndrome in IT: You’re Not Alone, and You’re Not a FraudBlog
Before we get too far into this I want to say one thing. I am not a medical or mental health professional. I’m a Jamf Engineer who has thought a lot about this but by no means am an authority on the subject. The following article is my reflections and not any type of mental health treatment. Now that that’s out of the way…here we go! Nobody goes to school to be a Jamf Engineer or Admin. The vast majority of us ended up in this field because we like to tinker with things, eventually break them and are forced to fix them without any help or education. For a lot of us, we ended up in this field by doing other things in a job where we do have formal training.When you fix what you’ve broken, you feel great. But when you can’t fix it, some of us give up, others seek advice, some keep plugging along to find the solution. But what happens when you end up in a corporate environment and you have to tackle things that you inherited, need an upgrade or you just need to do maintenance, most of it
