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Hi Fastlaners. My name is Jon. I'm 25 and I recently finished reading the Fastlane book. I was your typical slowlane guy, but wanted something else, something more. However, I didn't really know how to express these ideas to others until I saw them perfectly articulated in the book. Now, I am starting to develop some ideas and look at them in a different light and will update my progress right here on the Fastlane!
Background
The first time I became aware of the slowlane was at my internship. A woman presenting potential future projects was telling us one of the "downsides" to the aerospace engineer's line of work. She said that when you first get hired you might work really hard on a satellite and send it out into space. Then, as years pass by you work on other projects and depending on the mission, you won't know if that first project you worked on was a success until maybe 20 years later due to how long it takes spacecraft to reach their destination. Soon afterwards, people may start retiring, so it is hard to build on lessons learned since the time-frame is so skewed.
At first I thought it was just my place of internship, but when I accepted a job at a defense contractor (because that was the thing to do), I discovered the person in the office next to mine had been there for about 30 years, doing pretty much the same thing I was. The difference was during meetings the management would be more open to his ideas and he had more responsibility and clout. That's when I realized something was wrong and didn't know how to conceptualize it all until reading Fastlane.
Hi Fastlaners. My name is Jon. I'm 25 and I recently finished reading the Fastlane book. I was your typical slowlane guy, but wanted something else, something more. However, I didn't really know how to express these ideas to others until I saw them perfectly articulated in the book. Now, I am starting to develop some ideas and look at them in a different light and will update my progress right here on the Fastlane!
Background
The first time I became aware of the slowlane was at my internship. A woman presenting potential future projects was telling us one of the "downsides" to the aerospace engineer's line of work. She said that when you first get hired you might work really hard on a satellite and send it out into space. Then, as years pass by you work on other projects and depending on the mission, you won't know if that first project you worked on was a success until maybe 20 years later due to how long it takes spacecraft to reach their destination. Soon afterwards, people may start retiring, so it is hard to build on lessons learned since the time-frame is so skewed.
At first I thought it was just my place of internship, but when I accepted a job at a defense contractor (because that was the thing to do), I discovered the person in the office next to mine had been there for about 30 years, doing pretty much the same thing I was. The difference was during meetings the management would be more open to his ideas and he had more responsibility and clout. That's when I realized something was wrong and didn't know how to conceptualize it all until reading Fastlane.
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