Not too long ago, I was reading Charlie Kindel’s “You’re Thinking of Your Career Trajectory Wrong” and it reminded me of yet another trope that somehow is very commonplace, at least in the tech industry - your career is not a sprint, it’s a marathon. The analogy in question puts forward the idea that thinking of your career means that you need to be constantly running to some kind of “finish line” - an end goal. Careers, and specifically careers in tech, are almost never a linear path.