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Career insight: Manager positions are useless. Every manager became one b/c there was a period of necessity where they took the role. You'll never go 'up' in your career this way unless you encounter that necessity event.

These necessity events are rarer as you go up. They're also more common for growing companies. Career growth is basically about being patient/responsible/competent enough to take advantage of these necessity events and ratchet yourself upwards.

What isn't intuitive is that this means that Manager Positions or Non Meritocratic. There's no way to measure a manager. Manager is basically 'Sinecure reward for being there when you were needed."

If you're going to a startup to grow and take advantage of necessity events, be prepared to be in over your head. Be prepared to be stupid, or you'll sink the ship. If you're at a Big Company, be patient and specialize for critical skills. There's a long line of vultures.

There's a Bodhisattva with Flaming Sword opportunity here as well. Power hungry people fight dirty for these positions of criticality. If you're afraid to enter the fray b/c you'll get your shoes dirty, you cede the world a bit to chaos for every act of cowardice and fear.

Also be careful what you sacrifice. If you're critical for your job, you can't also be critical for your wife or your children or your parents. Criticality is singular because your consciousness can only be in one moment at a time without losing fidelity.

Being there for someone in the moment and being there for someone 2 days later when you heard from a friend of a friend are very different ways of "technically being there in an important moment."

A soul should always be aware of how it is critical. It feels lost and depressed otherwise. A Sad Soul is one that feels as if "No one would care if I was gone."