at least you can make a great first impression i generally feel like people give me no credit and i’ve got to earn it from them but then i’m a woman case in point boss at my former company desperately needed someone to edit an important document he’d be needing to submit as part of an mba application my manager asked me to help i did it he later remarked to her that he was stunned by the high quality of the work “i didn’t know she could do that” he apparently said instead of feeling as though i’d been complimented i took that to mean that i must seem like i’m not that sharp suffice to say it’s a hang up of mine that i don’t give people the sense that i have a high level of competency making a good first impression is a really great thing to be able to do it’s so much harder and stressful to fight for credibility when it’s not given automatically i really hope i don’t sound angry here i’m not angry at all but i’m curious to know why you think this is—about how people trust you so much off the bat i could really use some pointers lol