> ...and I just checked LinkedIn, the non-curious ones are still in the same company, managing the same piece of SaaS as a Software Developer. 20-26 years in the same company, straight from school.

And honestly, this should be OK. For a lot of people, they work to put food on the table and keep a roof over their head, and our society is structured like this for whatever reasons.

Not everyone needs to be learning and growing all the time. I personally like this, but I've worked with incredibly competent people who just had other interests outside of work, and had no desire to get promoted or work on different things.

Personally, I prefer (often) working with the learning and growing people, but sometimes you can learn a bunch from the stable people as they'll often have lots of hard won lessons caused by staying in the same place for a long time.

Some people’s brains are just wired for that.

There are people who are just fine being a cog in a machine doing the same thing all day for years on out.

My family is from a factory town and many of them were literally standing next to a conveyor doing a monotonic task that could’ve done by a robot.

I tried it for one summer job and my brain almost melted from the boredom and monotony.