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This is gold .. lol .. I am seeing this late in my career. I have 25 yrs exp in tech. I have been that foreign body many times, Rich. Finally, I quit, but I have no regrets.

Glad I left corporate almost 7 years ago now. No man should go through that disrespect.

They're not leftists they're liberals. Leftists get taken down 1000x more than conservatives. It's not even news.

Rich, I wish someone told me this about 6 years ago. I also wish I'd gotten even a fraction of the money I saved by corporation...

Next pandemic, quit….when they say go home full time be looking for a new job. If all do that the machine breaks

Act your wage

I like your videos: pragmatic and to the point.

Always did. Always will because we’re just a cog in the wheel. I could never talk to anyone about this. That America is secretly a dictatorship. Just look at the corporations and the lobbyists and politicians that support them. And now that Trump is in office this is the hard truth.

100% right 👍

If AI is going to take away jobs, why are we importing so many people into the country?

This is why you LEAVE CORPORATE WORLD IN YOUR 20'S MEN. LEAVE THIS CRAP FOR FEMALES

I swear to god, the TH-cam algorithm is reading my mind. This is describing exactly what I’m going through, as if you glimpsed into my soul. I’m easily, by far, the best engineer in my team. I’m so good because unlike my colleagues I have a passion for it, so I’ve been reading up, doing personal projects, developing my skills, when other people called it a day after putting in the hours. But I’m also better at other things that should be the job of others, like communicating with customers, documentation, trainings, people skills… this means I feel compelled to be constantly reviewing, fixing and improving the mediocre output of my colleagues. This is being recognized, so I have been promoted to the technical lead of my team, but considering that I’m personally responsible for 60% of success in a team of 5, my salary is not even close to my importance, and instead far too close to that of my colleagues that haven’t developed or progressed on their skills in 20 years. When asked for a raise, it was denied, despite listing an almost comically long list of accomplishments and recognitions as “proof of worthiness”. After doing this for 4 years, I’m getting increasingly frustrated, bored, thinking to move on to a smaller, more tech-minded company where I will finally be able to learn new things again from minds greater than mine. As the saying goes, if you’re the smartest guy in the room, you’re in the wrong room. But my job has perks too. Despite my many responsibilities, I’m so good and fine tuned at what I do, when I stop trying hard, I can often complete my job in 4h or less, leaving half the day free for other activities. Since people know I deliver results, I have a reputation and very flexible working hours, basically, I’m not being controlled or micro managed. This has huge benefits of its own. Pay is also good, even though, as mentioned, not what I deserve considering my importance and output. Now I’m struggling with the decision to stay and just take it easy - deal with the frustration, “stop caring”, and enjoy the perks, and make something useful with my “free time”, or look for something more intellectually stimulating but potentially sacrificing some of the freedoms and safety of the corporate job.

Hey man, you mention to change companies every 2 years, which I agree with. But, what if you are working at the company that is the most prestigious in a given field. Would it be smart to stay at the prestigious employer and move up the ladder or go to a lower quality employer for a promotion? For example, if you had an associate job at Goldman Sachs, would it be worth taking a promotion to move to a different less-known finance firm

näeh... i believe you will get more rich by 1. having the rare combo of genetics/circumstances, 2. willingness to SERVE. Ofcourse you are selfish, there is nothing wrong in that. Ofcourse you keep your own benefits at higher priority, that is just right; but to serve, means to make good for the highest amount of people possible. If that is weapons tech, sure, good. We need weapons. If that is building AI robots, thats great. You get it? If you can SERVE million people, you will be millionaire. You CAN steal, rob and kill, but that will cost you your soul, Maybe that will get you some wealth, but that is nothing in comparison to for example google. And what does google do? it SERVES the whole world!

Thank you for the videos!! So helpful.

I know I'm the dumbest guy so I'm way below the x axis baby

Im wondering now about this "short hand" phenomenon could you give some examples please, thank you

I think the keyword here is measurement. Measurement is a quantitative term relating to the conversion of information into numbers. There is another form of analysis, qualitative, which is a human judgment of the person as a whole. It has its own problems of bias and misunderstanding, but it fills some holes created by the reductive nature of measurement. It does not scale well unfortunately, hard to properly judge someone if you have 1000 people to judge and short time to do it

Как говорит мой муж: всех много, а всего мало.

Thank you for this video.

Do ecologically valid masters in a third world countries like law, medcine or programming.

Brutal truth! Thank you for sharing@Rich Gilbert. Will watch your other videos.

I'm uk based a mechanical engineer, 20 years with oldest bread company ,good job good company, but wanted a change , I now work for a biscuit company that was uk but now combined with a fox and an Italian connection, it's a terrible place, badly managed like the wizzard of oz , like the man says iv given up have no skin in the game and don't care , a tick box exercise is killing manufacturing, quietly quilting and care less,

I agree, I work for the state and do my best and not appreciated, I’ve been to several interviews, but they already know who they want to hire, it’s. Waste of time, before you know it, you’ve given them 20 yrs + of your life and they wind up hiring someone who has less seniority… Smh

Yes. Work hard for the corp, but for yourself primarily. Be ready for that merger or reorganization that means, however brilliant you were, you're surplus to what McKinsey etc, advised your employer. Get all the training and experience you can, to be ready for a move.

Dang Barbara is too productive for her own good.

thank you ..........

I’ve found that 90% of lifestyle creep is caused by having high maintenance friends and family lol. The better off you all get, the more others want to spend, and you feel obligated to match their spending. Best thing for my wallet was being single, not living close to family, and having friends who valued facetime over spending money as a way to show they cared.

Good points.

Dunning Kruger only applies to things where you have been doing them for a short period of time and there is no hard feedback. After 35 years of getting punched in the nose for seeing deeper and further than others - I can confidently say I sit two to three std deviations to the right.

I needed to hear this 25 years ago.

just at the right time for me, thanks

I actually said Nvidia 3 years ago. I bought in 2020. Unfortunately I only put in 20K. Still happy. I recently took my investment and doubled it and left the rest alone and if that is lost oh well.

5:21 Such a policy cannot exist; it is illegal. If this is true, Google can be prosecuted by EEOC. The only thing they can do is to form representative candidate pools, but they cannot make hiring decisions solely based on the protected characteristics. They likely lowered standards to hire more people, not because of the diversity goals.

You have some good points but overall your video is more feelings based than facts based.

The harder you work... the more work they will throw at you.

just put ur head down and let the “popular one” get promoted and mess up…and then guess who they will call next? this is all bs just do the work and your time will come

I get my raises and promotions by reducing production output..!! Quiet quitting is the way to defeat corporate greed..!! It's a bottom up reboot..!!😎

agree... some people around me say, that i´m sometimes close to genius... but I feel incredibly stupid when I look at the world 🤣 there are so many interesting things that you can learn about. It feels overwhelming...

I realized after I retired that I cared for soooo many years that what I did was soooo important. At the end of my career I started to realize if I didn't do it, somebody else would do about the same with the same skill set. When I retired, I realized I spent alot of my life caring alot more than I should have cared. In retirement, I'm alot happier and calmer and I sleep at night. Don't kill yourself for your job.

I love the fact that in previous videos you mentioned you're going to to such videos as this one here, and you delivered. Love it! Thank you

It’s all a fake skit show to harvest your Loosh. Do what you have to do. Go home.

School is a Scam that uses you for your money and labor.

We need to identify all the really, really intelligent people, put them on a paradise island where they want for nothing; give them absolutely anything and everything they desire, and hope they come up with (which I'm sure they would, at least a few good things), some really smart, new breakthrough innovations. You're right, this world is not set up for really, really smart people; most of them get alienated, just like the really sad story of William Sidis. Especially now, more than ever before, with the thought police/crazy woke culture we currently live in, combined with the genetic plummet in IQ due to who's breeding the most (the least smart) versus who's breeding the least (really, really smart people) on average.

As a PhD holder who had a full ride to my studies from Bachelor to the PhD, I confirm these 7 points. Not only that, you will be recruited and paid to do Masters and PhD. It does not matter if you go for it or not, you still have the option. Thanks Rich!

It took me too long to learn this: Be a bit unreliable. If you're always reliable and dependable, then the next time you have a sick child at home or you forget about an email, everybody's upset. If you're always just a bit unreliable, if they never know exactly what time you come in in the morning, they appreciate everything you do on your 3 projects. Also, if someone from another group asks you to help in their project, tell them they need to talk to your manager and explain their business need. My manager will discuss with me and we'll get back to you with our decision. It works everytime because they will never talk to your manager about why they need you to do their work 😅

Nevertheless - the average IQ at Ivy leagues is in the 130-145 range.

I've been researching this topic for a few years and comparing the results with both historical figures as well as some real life cases I know. After many years of hard work, Stephen Hawking, for example, was not making enough money for a good quality of life, he only started making more money after a marketing specialist advised him to write the book "A Brief History of Time" and he told him not to write it for other scientis, but for the general public. They invested a lot of money in publicity and sold millions of copies. He became famous and made a lot of money because he kind of got lucky to meet the right person for what he needed at the right time. I've personally met dozens of people who are smart university professors, inventors, etc... but who are poor or in the middle class. Most highly intelligent people never get famous nor rich for two main reasons: 1. They don't care much about becoming rich because they are already very rich and famous in their own minds. They have fun alone only by thinking about their own ideas, writing books or papers or creating new machines, etc... 2. Making money is earthy, but thinking and creating new things is heavenly. Thus, extremelly intelligent people spend too much time "in heaven" and little time "on Earth".

A written budget... Highly important and helpful to staying within your means and should be reviewed at least monthly. A budget also helps to build your savings and your emergency fund. I recommend the Zero-based budget method. Highly effective! This was a very good video...a re-calibration to those who think "the more, the better."

Whenever Sally or Jeff gets in your way or refuses to help, send an email to them confirming the things that were said in the interaction and cc your manager. Hi Jeff, As discussed earlier, I requested x and the response from your end was y. I’m able to do z but it would be really helpful if an and b could have happened but they won’t be as you said c when I raised it. Regards, D -- After the manager sees the pattern either the behaviour will change or the manager will act.