My voice will likely get lost in the wilderness, but I think it’s a bad sign if you have to write or vibe a whole post like this to defend your worth against another engineer.
I understand from a good chunk of my career that the person on the team that promotes themself and/or has the highest charisma and is adequately intelligent will exceed over others on the team that may work harder, have more experience, and/or is doing more important work for the business.
But it doesn’t mean that you have to ladder climb and play the game to get what you deserve. You can, and maybe can make more money and survive longer that way.
More important than that though is to be yourself. Don’t spend all that time promoting yourself just to make the world a shittier place, so that you get the nice house and car with the kids at the best school, etc. It’s ok to be stepped over while you actually do your job, and for you to feel like shit and maybe be jaded a bit because some asshole that doesn’t deserve it is getting the spotlight. Someone needs to be the Woz. (That’s not a slight against Jobs, btw.)
I understand from a good chunk of my career that the person on the team that promotes themself and/or has the highest charisma and is adequately intelligent will exceed over others on the team that may work harder, have more experience, and/or is doing more important work for the business.
But it doesn’t mean that you have to ladder climb and play the game to get what you deserve. You can, and maybe can make more money and survive longer that way.
More important than that though is to be yourself. Don’t spend all that time promoting yourself just to make the world a shittier place, so that you get the nice house and car with the kids at the best school, etc. It’s ok to be stepped over while you actually do your job, and for you to feel like shit and maybe be jaded a bit because some asshole that doesn’t deserve it is getting the spotlight. Someone needs to be the Woz. (That’s not a slight against Jobs, btw.)