To ask if you’ve ever blagged your way into a job you technically weren’t qualified for and smashed it anyway?

[CompetentChaos]

You know those moments where you think “I had no business getting into this role” but somehow you rose to the occasion and actually did great? I feel like more people have done this than admit it. Fake it til you make it really does work sometimes.

Ok so where are you now in this fake it til you make it scenario

And what is your AIBU :)

Pretty much my whole career because I dropped out of my degree but went on to have the resulting career anyway.

God no. The opposite. I have terrible imposter syndrome.

Not in a faking it phase anymore thankfully, just thinking about how common it is!

And the AIBU is whether it’s actually a bad thing to blag your way in sometimes, since it often ends up working out.

God yes. My entire career. I’m really good at bullshit and everyone I have ever worked with thinks I am an expert in my field. I’m blagging it all the way.

No. I seem to blag my way into shit jobs though

I don't know, I have never done it but I know people who have. Are you going to give examples of what qualifications you pretended to have and job you got? As it is hard to judge whether it is a bad thing or not without further context.

Depends on the job and the person imo. My boss took on someone from an agency who was supposed to be about at her level of experience - usually takes anywhere from 4 to 10 years to get there. He turned out to be a brand new graduate who’d never had a qualified job before and it was a total shitshow. I’m a believer in people knowing what they’re doing. But if the job is mostly about soft skills I guess people can develop those outside their industry.

I blagged my way from £22k a year job to £44k job - by describing what I did, and not disclosing salery. Once in the job, I was further prompted up to £63k within thr first year. The thing was, I knew I could do it. Just needed someone to trust me.

Oh nothing mad like faking qualifications, more that I’ve gone for roles where I didn’t tick every box but learned fast on the job. I think a lot of people underestimate how much you can pick up once you’re in the role.

That's fair enough then, I have heard that a lot of men do that all the time and that's partly why they can be more successful than women (in general).