I found that the more I delivered and the happier I made senior people, the more I could ignore the rules and process and friction and get stuff done. Probably a year or so in I barely paid any notice to most of it.
I had a huge amount of freedom, really. But after a bit over a decade I finally moved to the world of startups. I’d never go back.
So while you can definitely work on removing your own personal frictions, and it’s absolutely worth selectively breaking the rules, I’m not sure you’ll ever be as happy as you could be in a different environment if that’s how you feel now.
I had a huge amount of freedom, really. But after a bit over a decade I finally moved to the world of startups. I’d never go back.
So while you can definitely work on removing your own personal frictions, and it’s absolutely worth selectively breaking the rules, I’m not sure you’ll ever be as happy as you could be in a different environment if that’s how you feel now.