Reading all the responses to your comment a few things come to mind:
- people on HN have bad jobs with no advancement track for strong technical skills
- people on HN don't want to work their way up, then want it handed to them.
- people on HN have bad jobs with no advancement track for strong technical skills
- people on HN don't want to work their way up, then want it handed to them.
Yes. How terrible would that be. How terrible would it be for someone to have a title / position commiserate to their skills, not how good they are at office politics.
I just don't want my career advancement to be up to the arbitrary whims of someone in a position of authority, that's all.
There are many ways to work your way up that don't involve giving all of your free time away to someone else who may or may not decide to promote you for it.