have a triangle in my head—functional skill, raw intelligence, personal turning radius. Smart, hard-working, and paranoid together kind of radiates raw horse power. I stick with team and culture.

Corporations dictate this career path, and advancement relies on the recommendation of superiors. The goal of this corporation isn’t for the analyst to be successful. It’s for the team to be successful. That means that the ambitious rising star needs to be squashed back down into place. A junior analyst with just a few years of experience cannot ha