Last week, I participated in a panel of other professionals to college students about "Overcoming imposter syndrome as a minority in STEM"
First off the only reason I even know what imposture syndrome is , was because it came up in some management training I had in a previous role, but I definitely felt like the old guy in the room with the phrases that were being thrown around
"Safe space"
"Give yourself grace"
"Intersectionality"
Of course, I had heard all these phrases before but I hadn't realized the amount of currency they had gained with this particular demographic.
I was the oldest person on the panel by at least 10 years and the only 1 who had really worked in corporate America and I felt like they were not preparing these kids for the real world if the expect this shit to serve them in a professional sense outside of an academic environment
just stop talking; same result.
Yeah. I can’t listen to many of the ones I started with. Limited range and vocabulary. There’s one that says “at the end of the day” before every point he makes. I couldn’t after a while.
