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In my opinion if you are creative, imaginative and have ideas - You should choke up on it. Creative work, inventing things - it’s the most value able thing. No
by anonreeeeplor 4y ago
In my opinion if you are creative, imaginative and have ideas - You should choke up on it.
Creative work, inventing things - it’s the most value able thing. Not the “management.” If you are in a non creative environment and you find you have all the ideas, your focus should be either on leaving to build your own thing or to “take over” by effectively being the one who writes all the plans and who everyone comes to for ideas.
Creative people who create value are rarely rewarded in most medium or large sized organizations.
I realized after seeing how larger organizations work: There is no winning.
It is like the red queen problem. The more you run, the faster you are expected to run. You will very rarely if ever be able to convert this into upward motion. Your manager is very non incentivized for you to get ahead.
I personally feel like startups are simply the way to go. There is a much much larger market, many more options, granted it pays less, but you will get seen and credit for your work.
And startup skillsets are generalist skills that are often much more transferable. And you are valued more in general as more depends on you.
Reading what you said here: You are maladapting to a corrupt environment.x
I know exactly what you are saying: I spent my career having my ideas snatched, ignored, implemented with great results and no recognition or reward or worse.
I think you should just go to smaller firms in general.
- mgsouth 4y agoI'm replying to you here because your "Ask HN" post was flagged, can't comment there, but I think your statement about destructive behaviour [edit: was 'last statement'] is the important one. It is to be taken seriously. There are probably very few people on HN qualified to help you with your situation. Even for those who are, a public forum is not an effective place to do it. No, a therapist won't magically fix anything. But therapists and psychiatrist are the "debugging experts". They have training and experience to help with problems like yours. In effect, there is a magnifying glass which is making past events loom larger and larger. A therapist can help you get grounded, reversing the glass so to speak. A psychiatrist can help if there is some physical issue, such as OCD, that is feeding in to it. I'm not qualified to help, but please be assured that many, many of us have experienced similiar situations. That doesn't mean "I know what you're feeling." We don't. You are you, your situations is unique to you (as with all people), and even if we knew exactly what you were experiencing that doesn't get rid of the feelings. But we can empathize and sympathize. You are not alone. I would like to commend you on trying to handle things "the right way". That speaks well to you character. Please don't give up on it. Get the expert help.
- _8j50 4y agoI'm afraid it isn't that simple. My current work is realtively great. It wouldn't be easy to move to a startup since most startups don't invest in someone with my skillset. At least not until they get ~50 employees, but even then the perk of big companies is you get invaluable technical exposure.