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More folks should give additional thought to what STAGE of company they want to specialize in. It is totally ok to want to be a great early stage engineer/sales
by gunnr15 8y ago
More folks should give additional thought to what STAGE of company they want to specialize in. It is totally ok to want to be a great early stage engineer/salesperson/marketer where the ability to make decisions and move forward when the environment is vague/uncertain is HIGHLY valued. In my experience (leading teams at both early stage and 1000+ employee companies) most of the folks that thrive in the early “Wild West” stage start to wither when things get more formulaic as the business matures.
- exelius 8y agoYeah, it took me a long time to realize that my sweet spot is organizations between 100 and 1000 people. Any bigger than that and I don’t have the patience or attention to detail to deal with the bureaucracy / politics; any smaller and I grow frustrated with the lack of resources. Honestly, a good corporate manager does a whole lot of process and very little thinking. Great for those who can handle it, but I can’t.
- brobdingnagians 8y agoI've thought a lot about this and I agree. I find a certain social environment at work and a certain structure to be what I enjoy, so I figure I will always try to get myself into situations where I have a lot of responsibility, lots of latitude to learn new things, and a wide variety of roles. I wouldn't be happy in some jobs that limit that, but there are lot of people who wouldn't be happy in my job. I had a roommate in college that saw very little allure to entrepreneurship or risk, but was an excellent electrical engineer and wanted to have a corporate job forever.