I work at a TV company as a Camera Operator. I always feel like everyone thinks that I'm crap at my job and they only use me because they have no one else for the third camera. My general self confidence within my job performance is relatively low, and the ammount of pressure that I apply to myself to succeed can sometimes seem relatively ridiculous. However, last night at the studio bar - watching blues brothers - an excellent DP (director of photography) whom I really respect approached me and asked if I could assist him on a shoot this weekend. When I told my producer the good news, he told me that this DP has been watching my footage and has spoken to my producer on more than one occassion about my "brilliant" work. Made me feel pretty flipping good! So, hopefully this is encouraging in the fact that even though you can blur your mind into depressive paranoia and craziness, turns out someone out there thinks you're doing a pretty good job. And a word of advice, don't over consume on the news - it'll just depress you and fill you with paranoia. TLDR; i thought i was crap at my job, turns out i'm not that bad. yay! edit - spelling