Reality is that the ones quietly holed up in the corner are usually doing all the unsexy maintenance-type work that the extroverts don't want to do (because it's not sexy).

Nobody cares about that work... until it doesn't get done. And so, nobody doing it gets promoted.

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ambicapter 4 months ago | parent | next [-]

Communicating the importance of your work is a professional skill.

	▲	ghaff 4 months ago \| parent [-]
		And if it actually isn't very important, you should probably find something else to do or move on in some other way.

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ghaff 4 months ago | parent | prev [-]

Or it gets outsourced which is what often happens.