Don’t Climb Someone Else’s Career Ladder
You don’t always have to follow the path in front of you
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3 min readMar 26, 2024
I listened to a talk by Susana Lopes from the 2023 Mind The Product conference, entitled “Embracing a dual-track career ladder in product”, during which she discusses the fact that the standard career path (shown below in a slide from the talk) doesn’t have to be one that you follow.