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Listening to the Google hangout on "how to secure a job after your PhD" reminds me that I need to focus on what my potential is – to stay positive and overcome the feeling of not being qualified enough or having enough experience.
We are afraid of leaving our tribes, failing, being judged, not being qualified enough, abandoning our old selves and the people in our lives by becoming something new.
The Nobel Prize for Economics went to an Obama nominee currently being blocked in the Senate (for not being "qualified enough"), but most Americans didn't even notice this particular irony.
Many in this position also paradoxically spoke about feeling trapped, not being qualified enough to move, although: 'If it is possible to move I would, unfortunately I don't have such education,' (CIT, rural), 'I tried to search for another job without success, it is better to stay here'.
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They are qualified enough to serve as president, but wildly unqualified to run for president.
"Once they do, it's up to them to decide whether I was qualified enough to get in".
I was going in to lead a group that, frankly, I wouldn't have been qualified enough to join as a junior person.
"We have proved that we are qualified enough to get rid of terrorism, but the government does not provide us with decent jobs".
"I suppose generally some people might say they haven't been qualified enough, maybe they haven't been enough of a face around the world of football.
"They (the employer) may be persuaded to consider a more experienced candidate who will need to pick up some of the nuances of their industry and at the same time be qualified enough to drive it," he said.
She had to spend an extra 15 years convincing everyone that she was qualified enough.
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