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> The number of "lifer" employees with no aspirations is vanishingly small compared to 20+ years ago. I'm curious: Do you have data you could share around this
by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 4y ago
> The number of "lifer" employees with no aspirations is vanishingly small compared to 20+ years ago.
I'm curious: Do you have data you could share around this assertion?
Intuitively, I'd be inclined to bet the opposite. The population of the world has grown significantly; even if the number of "interesting" ambition-satisfying jobs grew at the same rate, there would still be tons more people in an absolute sense who end up stuck in a dead-end job.
(Admittedly, I conflated aspiration with achievement just then, but I'm not sure if there is an empirical difference? If an ambitious person is stuck in a dead-end job for years, then, by definition, they must not be ambitious enough.)