Am I the only person who does this?
I had a very basic job and no pride in myself. I was convinced nobody would hire me. I got a much better job and became more confident and sure that I had transferable skills. But when it came to job hunting again I still emotionally sometimes felt like I had the basic job and was unhireable.
Similarly, moving house was scary when I was young because I didn’t know how to settle into a new area. Now I know exactly what to do and that I can do it. But sometimes I catch myself feeling like I’m young again.
I do know how to talk to myself about my many advantages, how to make the best of worst case scenarios, and how having a plan B and a plan C can be a positive thing. I didn’t know how to do that in the past so things seemed much scarier than they needed to be.
Is this imposter syndrome? I really took a long time to grow up so have a large treasury of memories of not knowing how to handle things to draw upon.