QUIET
Quiet signal
“I'm doing the work of someone two levels above me” appears, but it rarely gets the final say. Keep this line available for higher-pressure moments: “This work still takes time, even if nobody put it in the title.”
SCRIPT CHECK · 60 SECONDS
“I'm doing the work of someone two levels above me”
See what this thought is changing.
Five quick questions show how often it appears, how believable it feels, and what it makes you avoid. You’ll get one private next step.
What this self-check measures
This is not a diagnosis and there is no pass or fail. It measures the current frequency, credibility, and behavioral cost of “I'm doing the work of someone two levels above me”, including the private rule underneath it: If I can see the gap, I should cover it. If I cover it well enough, it will look like my normal job, and if it vanishes in the review, I should assume that means I should have done it even better.
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PRESENT
Present in the background
“I'm doing the work of someone two levels above me” wins some small decisions before you catch it. Your useful interruption is: “If it keeps landing on me, I can name it on paper instead of carrying it loosely.”
ACTIVE
Active pattern
“I'm doing the work of someone two levels above me” is shaping action often enough to deserve a deliberate counterexample. Start privately and concretely: Take a blank note and list every task you handled today that involved context, cleanup, follow-up, or preventing confusion. Put a star beside the ones that were outside your formal scope.
DOMINANT
Getting the final word
Right now, “I'm doing the work of someone two levels above me” is steering many of the moments you measured. That is a pattern reading, not a diagnosis or character verdict. Begin with one reversible receipt: Take a blank note and list every task you handled today that involved context, cleanup, follow-up, or preventing confusion. Put a star beside the ones that were outside your formal scope.