Same. Just be who you are. The tech industry “growth expectations” culture is garbage. Just as a personal anecdote everyone told me constantly that I would nev

Same. Just be who you are. The tech industry “growth expectations” culture is garbage. Just as a personal anecdote everyone told me constantly that I would never make Staff Engineer at Google (roughly the 90th percentile rank) by just contributing to the code base. But that is what I did, and I was promoted to that rank. And I got the satisfaction of not participating in all the anti patterns of “leadership “ where one person gets promoted for taking credit for the work of many other people, or for solving problems they also created, etc. In short I rather admire a trade like dentistry or carpentry where one just practices one’s skills to the best of their ability, and there is no such thing as “Senior Staff Dentist”.