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"There is no excuse for long hours and hard work to advance your career."
Arguably the most inaccurate and stupid post in the history of Texags. Something only someone young and inexperienced would ever say.
Working long hard hours for the man gets you promoted to another crappy position that requires long hard hours with no high end upward mobility. If you think top level positions are filled by those who work long hard hours, you are sadly mistaken. We hire you shmucks under us so that we can work work efficiently and control our situation.
Upward mobility is not determined by desk time... it is determined by ability to control the position and those around you, both up and down. You get those around you to work, not sit in your desk counting hours to prove how hard you work.
Long desk time is not the sign of a hard worker, it is the sign of someone whose children resent him, whose wife is giving oral favors in the shops of legacy parking lot, and someone who actually count the days they have been on vacation like it is reps on a weight machine (which I am sure you also count). Its not about the experience, its about the number of days.
I am sorry, but I feel you are very misguided and have a lot to learn.
While I think this is obvious and goes without saying, I forgot that this was TexAgs: long hours and hard work are not the only thing a person has to do in order to be successful, but it's pretty difficult to do well with out it. I stand by my statement that there is no substitute for those two things, including raw talent, but thank you for your hyperbole and presumption. It made you sound highly intelligent. You can't get by on talent alone in a competitive industry. If you're able to do well without a lot of effort, then I am sincerely happy for you. What happens when you run across someone equally or more talented than you that puts the time in?
At a certain point, everyone is talented and smart, and hard work can be a difference maker. By the way, I may have believed you until I read: "We hire you schmucks under us so that we can work efficiently and control our situation." A real manager doesn't think that way.