I may be tone deaf for countries outside of the US. I know in China, Korea if you don’t graduate a top university and friggin start off in Samsung your max potential is predetermined.
Luckily if you’re in the US this career cares little about your starting line. Rather, the starting line will not dictate your final potential. No doors have been closed for you.
If you’re aged 35 and just made it to Google, you still have 10 years to make it to staff, and a then another comfortable decade to go beyond. If you’re aged 35 and worked a decade in Google already, you have to keep running, so the system doesn’t spit you back out.
You have time as long as you keep running. If you look at the pe