[samrus]

> But my goal is to reach my company’s quarterly and anual goals - not what’s going to happen 10 years from now.

Your benefiting from the work of peopke who did worry about what will happen 10, or even 20 30 years down the line. People like you are why the rides gonna stop

[raw_anon_1111]

So I should become a director or CxO of a company (because line level managers are powerless to do anything) so I can make those types of decisions?

Not that I’m a line level manager - I’m just a high level IC who is at the same position on the org chart as a line level manager

[wonnage]

It’s telling that OP worked at Amazon because this pretty much sums up the culture there - new grads churning through and burning out in two years while a few seniors stick around and perpetuate the cycle.

[raw_anon_1111]

I was 46 when I was hired and it was my 8th job out of college. I was far from a naive college grad. I went in with a purpose - keep my head down for 4 years through my initial four year package, put it on my resume, build a network and leave for a smaller consulting shop.

In fact the only reason I got my job there was because a recruiter reached out to me about an SDE job on the retail side. There was no way in hell that I was going to sell my big house in the burbs of Atlanta (at the time), uproot my life after Covid and work for Amazon. I knew what I would be getting into.

She then told me about a “permanently remote”,”field by design” role at AWS ProServe. I was like sure why not?