“The most honest person I’ve met recently was a vice president at a tech company who told me: ‘I manage a team of 12 people who create documents for other teams who create documents for senior leadership who don’t read documents. I make $200,000 a year. It’s completely absurd, and I’m riding it as long as I can while building something real on the side.'”

“It’s unclear how long ‘as long as I can’ will be. I am 24. Already, my friends with master’s degrees are fighting for jobs that might disappear next year, due to automation and artificial intelligence.”

– Alex McCann,
“How to Keep Your Soul in a Corporate Job,” Oct 4, 2025