Casual reminder that working with technology (be that programming, sysadmin-ing or any of the myriad ways we can Touch Computers™) is pretty damn difficult and if you're struggling, you are not "stupid".

We do a difficult job, cut yourself some slack đź’ś

@theresnotime

Dunning–Kruger effect all the way through. And as our jobs are so "pretty damn difficult" everything to the left of the turning point in this chart basically doesn't exist.

(attaching two charts, one is the scientific one out used in psychology and the other one is more from a meme but it is more relatable; It got kinda misused over the years, originally the axis on the bottom referred to absolute knowledge, aka the very right is Omniscience)

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger-Effekt