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How impostor syndrome manifests during military-to-civilian career transition

I have been pretending to understand corporate acronyms and processes for three months and I feel like I am living a lie every single day.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You've been faking that you understand things at work, and it makes you feel like a fraud every day.

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