ankalagon

Hello HN friends. I stayed in a company for 8 years and feel severily bad-skilled (I know it was the worst mistake in my life). The point is that I feel like I have 1 year of experience repeated 8 times. Last years I worked in a startup (defunct) and in a medium-sized company with success (project with multinational company as client), and from I know this project is now the most important one in the company and is only in maintenance mode (I keep contact with CEO and other guys there).

However, I recently started in a new place and I feel that am struggling to keep at pace and all my peers are younger than me.

So, fellow HNers, I need your wisdom and I wanted to ask you this questions:

- Have you been in a similar situation? What would you do to increase your skills?

- Is it imposter syndrome amplified to the 10x?

- Could I make up for the lost time?

- Is it possible to change my mindset and don't feel like I wasted my time?

- Could it be that making a Masters programme or some kind of education to feel more adequate?

- Is this a subjective "ego thing" and should to man-up and shut up?