In the military a Lieutenant fresh off West Point will be younger than the Sergeant Major who has been in the military for 20 years.
Do you think the Sergeant thinks he's "inferior" or is "humiliated" by the Lieutenant being younger?
In hospitals many nurses have worked there for longer than the freshly graduated Doctor has been out of diapers.
Do the nurses feel humiliated or inferior?
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People have different areas of expertise, that doesn't make anyone else inferior.
My boss is a woman who's younger than me, but she's fucking amazing at managing projects and keeping developers focused.
I don't feel inferior or humiliated, her expertise is in project management, mine is in software development and infrastructure. The skills are complementary.
I also have a coworker who's barely over 20 and they are a damn wizard with Unity, which I know only the bare minimum of. I'm not humiliated by that either.
I really think you would benefit from talking to a professional about how you see yourself, those kind of feelings aren't healthy and won't be fixed by you "becoming a manager" (which is usually just a ton of stress and managing humans, which is even more stress).
Do you think the Sergeant thinks he's "inferior" or is "humiliated" by the Lieutenant being younger?
In hospitals many nurses have worked there for longer than the freshly graduated Doctor has been out of diapers.
Do the nurses feel humiliated or inferior?
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People have different areas of expertise, that doesn't make anyone else inferior.
My boss is a woman who's younger than me, but she's fucking amazing at managing projects and keeping developers focused.
I don't feel inferior or humiliated, her expertise is in project management, mine is in software development and infrastructure. The skills are complementary.
I also have a coworker who's barely over 20 and they are a damn wizard with Unity, which I know only the bare minimum of. I'm not humiliated by that either.
I really think you would benefit from talking to a professional about how you see yourself, those kind of feelings aren't healthy and won't be fixed by you "becoming a manager" (which is usually just a ton of stress and managing humans, which is even more stress).