When I started my corporate job - there were a lot of people around me with similar attitude. They would refuse to go an extra mile, saying: Somebody else will

When I started my corporate job - there were a lot of people around me with similar attitude. They would refuse to go an extra mile, saying: Somebody else will benefit from this more than I do, fuck this. I used different strategy, I hopped at every opportunity I got. Eventually (pretty goddamn scary fast TBH) it started paying off. I got salary increases, advancements, etc... By the time I left the company I was best paid member of the original team (while being the youngest and with least original experience), I also got to enjoy some really cool perks (how many of you were offered a position of "free electron"?). It was possible to do - not because I worked so hard ( well I did work hard, tbh) - but mostly because my competition set the bar so low. When people think the way you do, it really doesn't take an "extra mile", an "extra step" will do a lot of the time. Don't get me wrong, I knew that the environment I was in was shitty and hopeless. But I would not let that destroy my odds. And after 5 years I loaded up on network, experience, opportunity. I also managed to save a bunch of money. And my parents are both blue collar people, without connections in high places, but they had some connections in the department of rationality that I am grateful they passed my way.