The Jeremy Clarkson Paradox

I will start at the top and say this is something that has had me lit. I have seen constantly, throughout my career, the idea that you have to fit into your role, perfectly as a cog, with undying servitude, to get ahead in this world. That the only way to get to senior manager is to do ten years as a junior manager. That the only way to the four bedroom house with the white picket fence is by signing your life away to some giant corporation and keeping your head down, because that raise is definitely coming! Even if it means working the occasional every weekend. And before the pitchforks from the…