This video and your analysis about self doubt hits home hard. I'm also full stack (strong preference to back end though) and just got back into the interviewing game. I've spent 8 years battling imposter syndrome to get to the point where I feel adequate. Being back in the interview process has brought back my imposter syndrome. I always feel unhappy with how much I prepare for my interviews, it never feels like enough. The only way I know how to combat imposter syndrome is to sort of not care about what I think and just show up. Show up to work, show up to interviews. Just show up and try even if I fail hard.

I feel good that this channel exist... Makes me feel not alone in all this confusion

As someone who’s more on the backend, I’ve always had the impression that front-end work with an eye toward design is much harder. And library standards are all over the place, so there’s a hundred ways to unreliably accomplish the same thing, whereas in Java world we benefit from some standardization. I’m sure there are plenty of nuances to your work that you take for granted, and that the negative Nancy reply guys don’t know or care to learn about.

I really needed to hear this. I've had the worst imposter syndrome for the past couple of months. I keep fearing I'm going into the wrong specialization or field. Or worse, that I'm never going to get a job or keep a job, even though I'm not at the stage of job hunting yet. Anxiety and imposter syndrome overwhelms me that I sometimes feel like I'm drowning. Like, what if I pick the wrong one and I'm miserable, and I have to be miserable for a long time until I can find a new specialization. Or I end up being pigeon-holed. Or what if I'm not truly good enough and everything has been a fluke. I know anxiety is trying to protect me, but it took away my confidence. I guess all I can do is keep doing what I'm doing. Practice and learn to the best of my ability

This video is great! I like the story, the build up, the music. Keep it up.

I’m entering cyber security. Honestly have a lot of self doubt coming from a stay at home mom with customer relations and human recourse background.

this was a really great video, thanks for sharing your experience. i currently work as a quality assurance tester and i study programming in my free time. i'm realizing more lately that a big reason why i am studying programming is because i had a couple coworkers make fun of me for working as a tester and said that its a job for slackers, along with it being so easy that a monkey could do it. while i really find programming interesting to learn about and i would love to become a game programmer, i realize the motivation for it stems from feeling like i'm not respected enough in my job even though i get a lot of praise for it. thanks for the self reflection!

bro u handsome af, ever thought about doing print modeling?