The majority of people actually are imposters, but that's not a reason to stop improving. I'm apalled at the people considered to be professionals in the industries I work in. Reps for billion dollar companies can't tell me what their products actually do, they can only repeat bullshit marketing terms. An IT manager for a very large insurance company told me i needed to call linux to find out why the broken download link they hosted didn't work. A plumbing inspector wouldn't inspect my work because I'm not a licensed plumber, ignoring the fact that everything was to code, he just didn't want to actually inspect when he could sign off without looking if I hired someone. An ophthalmology practice missed retinal cancer on a patient I sent to them because I had found a rapidly growing tumor in their eye. They saw that I had billed an imaging scan, figured they didn't need to run another one, and didn't see anything looking in from the outside. Faxed records are rejected all the time because no one in most offices know how to turn off error correction to allow internet faxes to come through, which I have to use because no offices use hipaa compliant encrypted email servers. A company I hired to lift a massive beam into place for my house measured to the front of the beam on one side, and the back of the beam on the other, so there's a ten inch slant to my entire second floor. The guy working the window at taco bell asked me what fresco style meant. My partner is lactose intolerant, and the vast majority of restaurant workers seem to think mayonnaise is dairy.

I see people talking about imposter syndrome a lot lately, and i don't think half of them are good enough at what they do to be imposters.