Molly Graham

manager one to manager two.

set of stairs that you didn't even know existed.

And you end up having this sense, or at least I think that all corporate compensation systems give you this sense of like, if I just keep going up these stairs, somewhere up there is like this pot of gold or like this award or this medal.

And, and the idea of the stairs is basically like, it's kind of like our parents' generation.

Like at least my dad, like he, he worked in the same place for 40 years.

I feel like when I left my first job, my dad was like, you, you're doing what?

Like you're leaving, you're leaving a job, you know?

And I, so many of my friends have the same thing with their parents where their parents did the same thing in this, you know, they might've done different jobs in a, in a company, but they were in the same company.

But in theory, it's like methodical, straightforward, but it's also like...

Both like extremely boring in lots of ways where like I think you can get very stuck in sort of their version of what is successful and what is good.

And this is actually a picture someone drew on a whiteboard for me, um,

way back in the day where he was sort of like, look, you can stay in the same company and you can walk up these stairs.

And also in a lot of cases, it doesn't always give you the chance to test yourself.

And it does have kind of a rhythm to it when you're in these bigger companies where like every two years or three years you get promoted and your job changes from

But yeah, that's that's the stairs.

Manager one to manager two.

And you end up having this sense, or at least I think that all corporate compensation systems give you this sense of like, if I just keep going up these stairs, somewhere up there is like this pot of gold or like this award or this medal.

But in theory, it's like methodical, straightforward, but it's also like...

Both like extremely boring in lots of ways where like I think you can get very stuck in sort of their version of what is successful and what is good.

And also in a lot of cases, it doesn't always give you the chance to test yourself.