A Guide for Deciding When to Stop Climbing the Corporate Ladder
A 5-Step Framework for a Fulfilling Career
This week, I wrote a quick note on Threads about how it’s okay to NOT want to grow your career. Well, it went viral.
I’m sharing that it went viral not as a sign of clout but as an interesting data point that made my ears perk up.
As the like, share, and repost count skyrocketed, I was asking myself -
“Do people really not know that promotion isn’t the only way to be successful?”
And then I flashed back to 2018. I was ambitiously pursuing a career in Product Management. Rapid ascent to leadership seemed like the only form of success; failure was anything that did not involve that journey upward.
And then it happened. I made it. I landed a job at a Microsoft subsidiary.
But as the months dragged on, I found myself in an unfamiliar position. I was very, very miserable with my choice. I had prioritized all the wrong things for myself and had to climb out of the hole I had dug.
Fast forward six years, and I’ve never been happier with my career. And I want to share with you how I got here.
It was by design, not by accident.
A 5-Step framework for a fulfilling career.
You need to change your mindset.
We’ve all been fed images of success that usually involve a big job title and a lot of money. But that’s not the only definition of success. And more importantly, it doesn’t have to be your definition of success.
I firmly believe you don’t have to:
Keep climbing the corporate ladder to be successful in your career.
Growth doesn’t only mean promotion.
Being a manager isn’t the only way to lead.
Shifting from an up-or-out mindset is key.
Let me show you how to do it: