Re: Putting yourself down
Hmm Maddy i maynot have anything worthwhile to add here (could this be an example of modesty?Hmm...) but i would like to comment that i once was in a similiar boat.I actually still do the same at times, its hard to shake off the old habits. I have noticed this is fairly common and sometimes expected of us in desi culture. But during my work experience which has been with all non-desis , i learnt they dont hide, they exaggerate! And when getting nominted for awards etc i was getting overlooked because even though i knew my job wayyy better than the person getting the so called award, i wasnt coming out and saying, "i belive i deserve a nomination also because i can do this work 10 times better than XYZ". I realised i actually had to be prominent instead of shying away. Hence i slowly started coming out my shell and etching away from the behaviour when i saw folks stepping all over me.
Another thing that helped: i was working on my resume and showed it to a friend for advice. He was straightforward when he said that taht resume of mine was never going to land me a job. And then he proceeded on asking me questions abt my old job and the things that i did for it. It was only then I realised that there are a lot of things no one else experience of or advantage of over me. And i needed to include such bullets on my resume instead of being modest and thinking "oh thats not much, sure that would be a waste of space on my resume". And ofcourse, even though my work exp isnot related to my degree at all, it does impress some folks out there.
So this maynot be all related to you but i do feel i can connect. I hope my exp help u a bit.