metastable

Those that know my $PERSON know that I've been around my industry more than 50% of my life already. I've worked hard, suffered hard, did stupid things, clever things, helped a shitton of people and undervalued myself forever.

And one question always comes up, what are you still doing in $POSITION if you could easily get a $MASSIVELYBETTERPOSITION?

The simple answer that I can say is: for the love of the game. Sorry. The reality involves a bit more gritty thinking, let's get into it:

We all know our lives are laid out in vertical responsibility structures, you work, you have a boss, that boss has a boss, etc. it what they call the career ladder; you're supposed to start at the bottom and climb your way to the top while stopping floor by floor helping around. The thing is; if everyone climbs to the top, who does the tasks at the bottom?

I love my profession. I have the capability to (and accidentally I've had to) become a high-level manager, but there's a few problems: they don't do crap, let me explain: they don't build, create, or solve issues. They coordinate, steer the company and think of ways of making money, that's their function and I don't find that fulfilling in any way whatsoever. I'm not helping anyone but myself, and I aspire to more than that.

So I refuse to climb the ladder, I'll stay here, building, creating and fixing, because at the end of the day, throwing money bills at a toilet doesn't fix the float and fill valve, a wrench does.