Casey Handmer’s perspective on how to think about your job and career, especially relevant for people transitioning into tech after a PhD/Postdoc:

“It’s not enough to have mastered your job to get moved up. You also have to build trust with your management. It doesn’t matter how good you are at the mechanics of your job, if your management and colleagues don’t trust you, they’ll see you as a loose cannon and try to find ways to offboard you. I have been in this position before – and clueless about it. My job was saved because I had become critical infrastructure for too much of the system, but I was still marginalized and unable to advance, because I had broken (spectacularly!) the trust of management.”