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Weekend Reads 21.3.2025

Faking it 'Til You Make it. (Everyone else is.)

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Elisabeth
Mar 21, 2025
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I solemnly promise every weekend reads will not start with some story related to my new job. No, next week will be full of details about something entirely different and will be accompanied by photographs. (Must keep things under wraps until then, but I am excited to share something I’ve been working on for a very long time with you!)

But that fun non-work story will come next week, and we are still in this week. A week that barreled past me and yet somehow found the time to bring up so many memories from experiences I had from the early years of my career.

I don’t know about you, but when I was just starting out in the world of Office Jobs, I just assumed older people knew what they were doing. As in, “That guy has been working for 20 years, so he has this figured out.”

How wrong I was.

Today, more than 20 years into my career, I look around to see very few people actually know what they are doing. I’m not talking about someone going through the motions of running documen…

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