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Maybe you(writer of the blogpost) had a bad experience and decided to write about it, but in reality, that's not how entirely things work. You are ignoring all

Maybe you(writer of the blogpost) had a bad experience and decided to write about it, but in reality, that's not how entirely things work. You are ignoring all the people that had a career and now are CEO of a Forbes 100. Everybody start somewhere and go somewhere. I had a bad experience getting promoted at a startup and have to report directly to a crazy CEO in a business running out of money, but that just made me even better. I've learned so much, after that "traumatic" experience, I went developer mode again and now I'm in a much better position than I've ever been -- but I saw how many of my peers would give up and make conclusions at the first time they have a bad emotional experience at work, even though that when they see around, they see people building great careers, but they all just think it is "ah, it is just ball licking, this person has no talent" and just keep taking orders as a soft. dev their whole lives. I'm not saying that a developer should go to management or become an architect, but please don't limit yourself to some emotional response, but instead, achieve greatness. Don't become to attached to what happened to you, but instead, look around. Is that really true? With your reasoning, you would think that whoever is a CTO and is working for a company 10 years is a terrible and unemployable person, when I actually see the opposite. The more I move up, the more people send me more "rescue my team/company, I give you money" and also the more rare I become. I think this is similar for everybody. BUT if you end up doing some custom code in PHP in a strange framework and become architect until your company closes and you are in a bad position, that is sort of on you, to accepting it, not questioning, proposing chances and not being able to position yourself in the job market well. Your company has their own interests and you should have yours.

Retric 8y ago
and now are CEO of a Forbes 100 At most you are talking about 100 people. The simple pyramid structure at most companies means most people are front line grunts. That’s the reality for the vast majority of the human race. Promotions are limited by the availability of high level ‘slots’ to be filled. Gaining skills and a new title while doing essentially the same thing is not an actual promotion.
- thiago_fm 8y ago
  Yes, so be there to be the one to get promoted instead of being a front line grunt. Take the responsibility to change that situation for you. Just making up excuses and believe there is little room will just make you instantly lose.
  - Retric 8y ago
    Playing that game to win means understanding the odds. Trying to moving up at the cost of your finite life is hardly a great investment.
LaGrange 8y ago
> You are ignoring all the people that had a career and now are CEO of a Forbes 100. Oh no. They are ignoring 100 people. This is terrible and the whole premise is invalidated. > Everybody start somewhere and go somewhere. This is generally known as "ashes to ashes, dust to dust."
- thiago_fm 8y ago
  You don't need to be the CEO of one of them to be successful. It is just an example. What I've wanted to mean is that: There are a lot of people being successful around the world. Stop making excuses.
scotty79 8y ago
> You are ignoring all the people that had a career and now are CEO of a Forbes 100. I think it's perfectly safe to ignore 100 people when giving general advice. If you read financial advice you rarely see any attention paid to 100 lottery winners and if ever, it's in a form of firm statement: "You are not one of them."
- notus 8y ago
  It's clearly just an example of people who build their careers. The type of people they are talking about are plenty. If you're going to criticize someones arguments you should criticize the meat of the argument instead of just going after low hanging fruit. It is one of the most annoying and unproductive things people do in any type of debate.
- thiago_fm 8y ago
  You don't need to be the CEO, there is a lot of room for you there. You also don't need to go to a Forbes 100. It is just an example. Just get a grip of your life and career and stop thinking that you can't be a forbes 100 CEO, as soon as you do it, you are really trimming down your chances, because there are definitely people that think they can, but they don't get it, but they will be definitely ahead of you.

Retric 8y ago

and now are CEO of a Forbes 100 At most you are talking about 100 people. The simple pyramid structure at most companies means most people are front line grunts. That’s the reality for the vast majority of the human race. Promotions are limited by the availability of high level ‘slots’ to be filled. Gaining skills and a new title while doing essentially the same thing is not an actual promotion.

thiago_fm 8y ago
Yes, so be there to be the one to get promoted instead of being a front line grunt. Take the responsibility to change that situation for you. Just making up excuses and believe there is little room will just make you instantly lose.
- Retric 8y ago
  Playing that game to win means understanding the odds. Trying to moving up at the cost of your finite life is hardly a great investment.

LaGrange 8y ago

> You are ignoring all the people that had a career and now are CEO of a Forbes 100. Oh no. They are ignoring 100 people. This is terrible and the whole premise is invalidated. > Everybody start somewhere and go somewhere. This is generally known as "ashes to ashes, dust to dust."

thiago_fm 8y ago
You don't need to be the CEO of one of them to be successful. It is just an example. What I've wanted to mean is that: There are a lot of people being successful around the world. Stop making excuses.

scotty79 8y ago

> You are ignoring all the people that had a career and now are CEO of a Forbes 100. I think it's perfectly safe to ignore 100 people when giving general advice. If you read financial advice you rarely see any attention paid to 100 lottery winners and if ever, it's in a form of firm statement: "You are not one of them."

notus 8y ago
It's clearly just an example of people who build their careers. The type of people they are talking about are plenty. If you're going to criticize someones arguments you should criticize the meat of the argument instead of just going after low hanging fruit. It is one of the most annoying and unproductive things people do in any type of debate.
thiago_fm 8y ago
You don't need to be the CEO, there is a lot of room for you there. You also don't need to go to a Forbes 100. It is just an example. Just get a grip of your life and career and stop thinking that you can't be a forbes 100 CEO, as soon as you do it, you are really trimming down your chances, because there are definitely people that think they can, but they don't get it, but they will be definitely ahead of you.