Just give a shit, if you honestly care about what you work on and try hard it will take you very far. Of course part of it comes down to luck, you have be work

Just give a shit, if you honestly care about what you work on and try hard it will take you very far. Of course part of it comes down to luck, you have be working amongst decent people who can/will recognize good work. But on the whole I have found that just caring and trying hard will almost always take you where you want to go in a job.