Remember, careers and jobs are usually dead-ends. Any equity you build for the entity typically does not belong to you. You could spend years working for a company and be let go at any moment without any significant equity in the entity. The whole point of getting a job is to get compensated for your skill, efforts and time. What the company can not usually take away from you is the skills and experiences you learned on the job and any additional education obtainment you achieved on your own dime. This is super critical to understand as you do not want your everything during your work-life be devoted to a company that you do not own and to which you do not receive commiserate benefits for the incremental equity you create for them. Hence you have to decide whether you want to WAFRL or AAFRL. The important factor to keep in mind and to impute is what is the at-above-fire-replacement-level is. Basically, the level at which you could significantly develop yourself while still get paid at your job without getting fired. The important thing to know there is when you are calculating AAFRL and you are not a DEI rather than a MEI or a non-DEI hire, what is the minimum effort required to keep your job while also learning the requisite skills to succeed. Also, keep in mind you may be able to tolerate a certain level of attrition risk as the new generation typically now trend closer to two years of average employment length at one employer (industry dependent) than the previous at least three to five years. Non-DEI related AAFRLing is typically more sensitive to risk fluctuations versus more compliance implicit quota-oriented formal/informal systems where employers will view AAFRLing as a cost to doing business in certain part(s) of the West.
My perspective on this is quite simple. As a global top ten-er in education received from US institution(s) with numerous commiserate low double to single-digit Fortune 500 experiences, I believe WAFRL only really works when you are in a prestigious firm that cares about MEI related results and that your educational institution give you the type of coated-prestige institutionalized and empowered upon you that everyone from these types of MEI, high prestigious firms will see and understand and that will prevail over any low to no bargaining power you came in with due to your familial background from birth. An elite education is the typically an equalizer to a low-bargaining power birth background when you know how to leverage it. You don’t sell gold in markets with lots of fakes and when much of the customer-base is looking for trinkets. You network to gain a foot into the door with an opening that others will see value in and will persuade them to allow both of your foot into the door and clean the filth and dirt from your shoes from whichever world you came from with a nice shoe rubbing on the door mat and a deep cleanse once you are bridged into such societies. Always remember where you came from not to celebrate your sorrowing provenance rather remember how hard it was for you to get in so you can motivate yourself to never go back and sail into the sunset. You didn’t choose where you were born into but you have ever right to steer your life how you want to granted you comply with certain legal, social/moral and societal rules.
I live in America which means I have the rights to exercise reasonable free speech as permitted by the law. All posted content(s) on this website are my opinions only which means they should not be taken as advice of any kind. I am a non-celebrity, non-public figure posting anonymously for my own entertainment on a website that is not affiliated with any individual(s), organization(s) and/or any entity/entities.
How to choose the right career and/or job.
The number one rule I believe any person should do starting out in the professional world is to build up their own credibility. This requires frequently requires at least in the initial stage of utilizing prestige gained through association be it through education, networking, affiliation with non-work related organizations such as student clubs and/or through employers. People who don’t have something will frequently tell you why not having that thing is no big deal, however, if they had that thing their tone likely will change. I think one should go to the best possible school(s) within a given ability range and work for the absolute best companies they could get into through legally compliant means. It is typically much easier to downgrade in prestige than upgrade. Once you have something, even for a few second, you can say you had something without qualifiers because it’s actually true. If you played in an official NBA game for less than a minute, are you not an NBA player? Whether you were undrafted, signed a two-way contract, got your opportunity through an exhibit 10 contract or nepotism, do any of these things make you not an NBA player? Don’t assign meaningful weight to opinions of the lay-clowns who can’t even think through their own thoughts dictate your own ambitions. The bottomline is, get that prestige on your resume.
You are going to need peak prestige followed by a certain level of quantity as you need to prove to the key detractors who matters in your life that your achievement was not a fluke. An increasingly more prestigious trend at a given range is probably the best way to prove your worthiness to these people at your “prestige prime” and peaking to the highest prime level before normalizing to a regression to the mean which many people experience after they proven themselves and no longer give an F and actually have FU money to don’t give an F anymore in a professional, elite mannered way that frequent still excite the lay-people and lay-entities to get that lucrative second tier money without having to expend much effort, a breeding ground for AAFRLing or WAFRLing to get into partnership level(s). Something that prestigious is rare air and scare resource. No one cares if you were paid minimum wage playing that one second in the NBA since just getting the chance playing in the NBA or any professional sports league in history is basically almost impossible for everyone except maybe 5,000 people who played in the NBA and 300,000 maximum estimate of people who played in any professional sporting league in the history of this world out of the over 100 billions of people who were alive during that period of time. The top global 100 firms in the world may employ 30 million people which is less than 1% of those who active participate in the workforce. When you exclude the non-white-collar, lower skilled and the semi-white-collar employees from the companies that hire the most employees such as the e-commerce, fast food, retail banking, logistics, manufacturing and retailing companies on the global top 100 list, you will find that maybe there are a million or two at the most of employees with near six-figure salary corporate jobs. All that to say is, these companies are like the professional leagues for the non-professional athletes who can get into these companies through hard work and not solely based on gifted talents at birth.
Devoting all your time to a rental project which a job basically is, probably is not the wisest move. The smarter move is to learn all the transferable skills possible from your current job, use the prestige you gained to metaphorically erase any possible doubt in the minds of the decision makers on the hiring side that you can perform the job for future opportunities. Yes, you may need to stay at a job for a minimum amount of time to appease the “are you stable” crowd but other than that, your associates prestige likely could carry you when you at at trajectory GOAT level especially when you can produce results even when the process of how you got there is not always transparent to the hiring decision makers. Ultimately the process will likely only be replicated on a massive level if the result is actually desirable and intrigues the decision makers. A lot of people who could afford it pay for the best of everything even when the best is only marginally better than the second best. Being called the best is prestigious on its own. The purported the stingiest groups of people actually are smart enough to pierce through the price and pay for the value.