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  • Yeah, I think so much of this comes from tests and grades in school. You go through the most formative years of your life taking tests, getting grades, moving onto the next year in school, and getting certificates and degrees.

    Then eventually, that part of your life is over and you’re just on your own. I remember when my wife and I first took our son home from the hospital. We kept expecting some authority to come around and deem us worthy of parenting or something. It just felt weird to be like “here’s a baby, good luck!”

    So much of life is like that, which leads to a lot of people experiencing imposter syndrome. I’ve personally been working professionally for 20+ years and sometimes think “ah man, today’s the day I’m gonna have a surprise test and everyone’s going to know I don’t know what the hell I’m doing.”






  • I posted this on another thread, but thought it was worth sharing here as well.

    Heads up this is about to get worse. Republicans recently voted to cut retirement funding for air traffic controllers. By cutting the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) for workers retiring before 62 (all Air Traffic Controllers are required to retire at 56 and are eligible to retire at 50), this is completely fucking over ATCs who continue working by changing their retirement math.

    An open secret with ATCs is that they have numerous medical qualifications that they have to maintain to keep working. For example, if they see a doctor about sleep apnea, depression, alcoholism, etc they lose their medical qualification and are forced to take a medical retirement.

    So what happens if you’re an ATC in your 40s and the government says “hey you can keep working for the next 10 years and retire without this FERS supplement… Or you can tell your doctor that you snore at night and take an immediate medical retirement right now and get paid more in retirement”?

    TLDR; We’re about to have a shit load of Air Traffic Controllers taking medical retirements and these staffing problems are going to explode.








  • Heads up this is about to get worse. Republicans recently voted to cut retirement funding for air traffic controllers. . By cutting the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) for workers retiring before 62 (all Air Traffic Controllers are required to retire at 56 and are eligible to retire at 50), this is completely fucking over ATCs who continue working by changing their retirement math.

    An open secret with ATCs is that they have numerous medical qualifications that they have to maintain to keep working. For example, if they see a doctor about sleep apnea, depression, alcoholism, etc they lose their medical qualification and are forced to take a medical retirement.

    So what happens if you’re an ATC in your 40s and the government says “hey you can keep working for the next 10 years and retire without this FERS supplement… Or you can tell your doctor that you snore at night and take an immediate medical retirement right now and get paid more in retirement”?

    TLDR; We’re about to have a shit load of Air Traffic Controllers taking medical retirements and these staffing problems are going to explode.