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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions:

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   Quite often my manager writes me in the morning: hey, can you help the team with this thing? And sometimes it happens so that I know no more than \u201cthe team\u201d about the thing, and actually there\u2019s no way in the world I can help them, but everyone assumes that I am some kind of expert in it. Where did they get that impression? This is so irritating!

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   I absolutely love to be asked for help when what I\u2019m asked for is kind of \u201cmy thing\u201d.

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   But in some cases, I can\u2019t just say \u201chey, this is not really my specialty, I will be more of a burden here\u201d, because everyone would think that I\u2019m just lazy or unwilling to help. And then I sit and struggle through the process of everyone asking me questions I obviously don\u2019t know answers to, and I try to guess or figure out these answers, and I suffer because I don\u2019t meet everyone else\u2019s expectations, and everyone else suffers because no one knows what to do, and it goes on and on and on\u2026\nI don\u2019t know about you - do you find yourself in such situations and what do you do if you do?

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   My company just asked me if I\u2019m interested in going to a conference that\u2019s about a month away, but I\u2019m currently in the process of job hunting and don\u2019t know if I\u2019m going to be around for much longer than a month. What do I do?\nIt feels dishonest to go and then leave the company shortly after. But it also feels dishonest to say \u201cNope! Not interested!\u201d because I actually would like to go. There\u2019s also the benefit that people often are recruiting at conferences so it might be a great place to be for that.

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