Welcome back to Path to Staff! We’ve now hit 3000 readers. To celebrate, we have a special guest
(E9 Distinguished Engineer at Meta) this week.
If you know Philip from Facebook, he’s the guy who spent $57,000 buying everyone a cup of coffee for everyone at Facebook across several offices!
In today’s article, Philip talks about how he believes work-life balance is a myth if you want to level up. He was promoted every year in his first 8 years at Microsoft. That’s extremely impressive.
Of course, this intensity isn’t for everyone. I’ll also share the other side of the coin on Philip’s Substack (subscribe if you haven’t!) in a week or two. I’ll share how I find work-life balance while continuing to build my career.
But without further ado, here’s Philip.
Self-help books and countless motivational speakers evangelize the dream that you can have it all: a great family, a 45-hour work week, a head full of luxurious hair, and faster career growth than your peers.
It isn’t true. Anyone saying differently is selling something or leaving out key context.
Ways to Get Ahead
Three components of fast career growth:
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