Ask HN: How to find an effective career coach?
&gt;I do not want to turn away from this ecosystem for now mostly because I want to learn how to survive in such a political environment, and partly because if this modernization project gets delivered whenever it is, it will be a very good learning experience for me.<p>Why do you want to learn how to survive in that type of environment? Do you plan on being in those types of environments for long afterward?<p>As for the modernization, is that an experience you could get by reading some books or by doing a side project?<p>Sorry that I have no advice to your actual question. It just seems like you are trying to adapt to a bad situation that maybe you don&#x27;t need to actually deal with. You could go elsewhere. A career coach is a good option if you really want to climb the ladder at this company, and maybe if you want to get really down and dirty with the office politics. But to me it doesn&#x27;t sound like that was your plan. It sounds like you&#x27;re interested in the tech and you stumbled into an absolute mess of a company. Anyways I&#x27;ve heard Stealing the Corner Office is a good book on office politics.