one of many silly things, but at least it's mine

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
felix-lupin
striving-artist

Tumblr skews young, so let me just share this.

The worst thing you can do in a job is not be bad at something. It's to say you are great at something while being bad at something. If you need to improve and you're upfront that you're not the best, people will probably help or teach or explain. They will sympathize when you get put on a task you're not qualified for.

If you claim to be awesome at something when you demonstrably suck at it, all of that good will and sympathy is gone and it will not come back.

Confident is good. Stand up for yourself, know your skills.

But the other side of this is to Know your Faults.

This message brought to you by the 23yo who bragged about how he was great at X and had the best program for it, and I spent the weekend doing his job for him because he is so so bad at it, and only about 5% of what he did is salvageable.

twitcherpated

On the other hand, saying "I know enough about [x] to look up the things I don't know how to do" is a legitimate and valid skill level to proclaim. Like even just knowing to say that, knowing the concept that you could look up things you don't know how to do, that you are capable of independent learning, is huge. So for those anxious about whether or not they know enough, "I know enough about [x] to look up the things I don't know how to do" is a great way to show familiarity without proclaiming expertise.

striving-artist

Excellent addition. One really common thing is that young/new employees know the programs well, but they don’t know the details of the task. So. Other great sentences that are versions of not knowing stuff but sounding confident.

“I’ve done this sort of thing before, but never here/with you.”

“I know the program I need to use, but I’ve never done this before. Let me get started, and see what I can figure out on my own.”

“Do you have a copy of a previous version of (thing) I can use as reference?”

“Luckily I am very fast in this program, so if I do this totally wrong, we can at least catch it fast.”

“I’m going to put together a very rough version and come talk to you. I don’t want to waste the time getting into details if I’m doing it wrong.”

And it is always always valid to say:

“Okay, I have never done that. If you want me to try, I can. I want to learn this, but I might not be the right person for it.”

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nmzuka
triviallytrue

i'm a taylor swift centrist. she makes perfectly tolerable pop music that i can't imagine really getting into. dunno what it is about her that makes so many people go insane

triviallytrue

i listen to one of these relatively bland and inoffensive but nonetheless well-crafted pop songs and everyone around me demands that i proclaim it a masterpiece or artistically bankrupt or whatever. i just want to grill for god's sake

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