>>12833910The trick is to find a job in a new or growing industry where your skills are unique compared to your peers.
For example you might look for jobs at startups with good prospects where you would be the only person at the company in your field. Don't worry about how "big" the startup is gonna be. The goal is to make yourself look great on paper for a couple years and then fuck off to another company that will pay out the ass for your "expertise" and then repeat.
This does a number of things:
1. People are less likely to question or shoot down your ideas because there isn't a mouth breathing senior management structure in place to fuck you over
2. People are less likely to reprimand you when you fuck up because nobody understands half of what you're doing
3. Getting in on the ground floor essentially guarantees that you can negotiate yourself a buzzword title once the company starts hiring more people ("Senior Chemical Engineer, Head of Chemical Engineering, etc.)
Play the game for a few years until you hit a wall where you're not having fun milking the shit out of whatever company you're working for and then move on. On paper you'll look like a fucking rockstar since you came in as "just a chemical engineer" and left as a "Senior Lead of Chemical Engineering" or some shit with a bunch of important sounding accomplishments attached to your name.
Take your fancy sounding title and superficially stellar list of accomplishments and move on to the next sucker company looking to hire someone as "driven" and "inspired" as you. Except this time you can ask for double your previous salary or whatever. Repeat a few times until you land in a cushy management job at a major corp making boring decisions and making a comically high salary.
The only difference between a good engineer and a bad engineer is salesmanship.
