🦄 Startups & VC 10h ago · James Brennan

The career ladder you climbed is being dismantled in real time

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The career ladder you climbed is being dismantled in real time
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The career path most of us were sold went something like this. Get the degree. Land the entry-level job. Pay your dues for a few years. Get promoted. Move into management. Climb steadily for the next thirty years. Retire with a pension or at least a 401(k).
That ladder is being taken apart, rung by rung, while we’re standing on it.
It isn’t a clean demolition either. The middle rungs are being squeezed by middle management cuts. The bottom rungs are being absorbed by AI. The top rung

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