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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24
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<blockquote data-quote="trainingcontract" data-source="post: 164615" data-attributes="member: 31472"><p>just to add to the conversation, I personally find it really hard to not feel like an imposter, so the way I work around it is by giving in and accepting that I might be one. So maybe I am less qualified to do this AC than everyone else, so what? So someone on the graduate recruitment team made a mistake, but it's working in my favor. I am in the same room as the Harvard grad and the entrepreneurs, at the same stage of our applications. We both have an audience with partners of the firm. I have as good a shot as them to make an impression, as long as I put more work in. Maybe I'm not clever enough to get a vacation scheme, so what? Plenty of people are in positions of power that they have no business being in, and yet they make do and everything's fine. I don't need to be "good enough" to get a TC. I just need the right sequence of people in the right places to believe that I'm good enough.</p><p></p><p>Of course I'm not saying that either of us are actually not good enough. You have earned every AC that you get, and so have I. But for me, understanding on some abstract level that I have passed some metric to get here doesn't help when I don't <strong>feel </strong>like I should be here. So this is how I get over the mental block. Added benefit of making me feel a little cheeky and anti-establishment while grovelling for a job lmao, but YMMV</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trainingcontract, post: 164615, member: 31472"] just to add to the conversation, I personally find it really hard to not feel like an imposter, so the way I work around it is by giving in and accepting that I might be one. So maybe I am less qualified to do this AC than everyone else, so what? So someone on the graduate recruitment team made a mistake, but it's working in my favor. I am in the same room as the Harvard grad and the entrepreneurs, at the same stage of our applications. We both have an audience with partners of the firm. I have as good a shot as them to make an impression, as long as I put more work in. Maybe I'm not clever enough to get a vacation scheme, so what? Plenty of people are in positions of power that they have no business being in, and yet they make do and everything's fine. I don't need to be "good enough" to get a TC. I just need the right sequence of people in the right places to believe that I'm good enough. Of course I'm not saying that either of us are actually not good enough. You have earned every AC that you get, and so have I. But for me, understanding on some abstract level that I have passed some metric to get here doesn't help when I don't [B]feel [/B]like I should be here. So this is how I get over the mental block. Added benefit of making me feel a little cheeky and anti-establishment while grovelling for a job lmao, but YMMV [/QUOTE]
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