I was never competitive, in the sense of wanting to "defeat" my workmates. If they wanted to defeat me, I'd concede, after putting up a brief fight. Life is ver

I was never competitive, in the sense of wanting to "defeat" my workmates. If they wanted to defeat me, I'd concede, after putting up a brief fight. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting. I would advocate strongly against bad decisions, ifd I thought I'd get a hearing. I became a programmer, and I stayed a programmer. Like, I tried managing projects once; didn't agree with me. And I was obliged to take on the management of a support team, once; that didn't agree with me either. I retired a programmer. I didn't get as rich as I'd have got as a man-manager; I suppose a really good project manager must be worth their weight in gold, because I've never met one. But I earned enough to raise my kids, buy a house, etc. So that's not so much about competitiveness, as about ambition. I have had the ambition to make something really cool; but I wasn't ever lucky enough to have a really good idea and the time to implement it. And probably I just wasn't clever enough. If you enjoy your life, and you earn enough, my advice would be not to worry about competitiveness and ambition.