How to Get Promoted
This is going to sound a little touchy-feely, but I&#x27;m going to write it anyway.<p>There are a lot of games in the world, and what the author describes here is one of them. And you can play this game if you want to, and you might even win at it. But it&#x27;s worth remembering that you have one existence, one set of time and energy to spend in this life. If you decide to look at the world this way, and operate with this mindset, then that&#x27;s how you&#x27;re choosing to spend it. You will not &quot;make it&quot; some day and suddenly reverse course.<p>More and more these days I think that people who are unhappy in the modern world live in prisons of their own making. Yes, a lot of people think this way and work this way. I think it&#x27;s good to know the game is out there, and that you&#x27;ll encounter people with this mindset. But you do <i>not</i> have to play the same game. Yes, you probably need a job. Yes, your material rewards might be lesser if you don&#x27;t engage in this kind of stuff. But you can still live a perfectly good life—perhaps even a better life—by building it around other principles.<p>I don&#x27;t mean this to be a lecture, or condescending, or anything other than a reminder that just because you have to work, it doesn&#x27;t mean you&#x27;re stuck playing the games other people are playing.