On paper it looks exciting and creative, but in reality your ideas often get shut down. Everyone spends more time trying to get noticed by their manager than actually doing meaningful work. If you’re good at following the crowd and flattering the right people, you can move up, but thinking independently doesn’t get you far. It’s hard not to notice how everyone just goes along with the same routines.
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It’s all just a game. Figure out the game and decide if it’s one you want to play and what kind of player you want to be.
This will be an unpopular statement and get a lot of eyerolls but... you learn the game of whatever employer you work at and... use it.
So yeah it's a mess but most of us need paychecks.
If working at that super fulfilling, fun job paid enough we would all have those kinds of jobs.
Feels like the real takeaway here is... it's just a job, don't get attached (some might even say don't bother being overly loyal) to your employer because they are just trying to maintain stock price/appease shareholders/etc.
"It's just business".
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It’s exponentially more at Nike.
You're not wrong but this is the same at most corporatations too.