I know the feeling...
A few years ago my job consisted of being "on call" to a Californian music company. Every so often I'd get a call, and have to get over there immediately, to sort out some kind of problem with their software. It was often something I knew nothing about, to the extent of reading the language manual on the flight over...

It used to stress me out, until at the end of one trip the Big Boss called me in. I was expecting a bollocking, for blatant winging-it, but instead he told me that I'd achieved more in two weeks than the full-time "expert" had managed in six months...

I reckon most people are winging it, cringing in case they're found out.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 12:25, Reply)