Spoke with an old friend this morning and was struck once again with the reality that we are a society of fakers. We are all just muddling along, feeling inadequate in our muddle yet thinking everyone else is doing SO much better than we are. What a laugh. If we are all honest with ourselves, very few of us really know where we are REALLY going from here. With the exception of a few very specialized fields, we often say we can 'do' something or have the ability to complete a given task, without really having done it before. After all, what is a job interview for most jobs beyond how well you can 'fake' it? If you are shaking your head and disagreeing, think about this... don't most of us study up on the organization we are interviewing with? Practise the responses that put forward the worker we wish to portray? Isn't there an industry of job coaches, life coaches etc etc? They are just fakers too. Really good ones who have figured out we all feel insecure and just need someone to hold our hand sometimes.
Can we be perfect citizens, great employees, dedicated and exemplary parents all at the same time? I don't know. But damn, we all are doing a great job faking that we are! Otherwise work-life balance would not be a topic of discussion!
Here is an article that I think articulates this thought pretty well... www.thatgraph.com/961
