Weaker minds generally fail to understand the fact that when you work for yourself, you are the CEO.
The path to success you follow just gives you the brownest of lips and none of that precious job security you crave.
Might want to start thinking of job that pays you the kind of money you want to make without feeling like you have to have a boss above you that you can kiss up to just so and he can protect your job.
A pathetic career path to be sure. Maybe you could be an author of a best seller entitiled, "How brown was my nose!"
Your repeated mental imagery of 'ass kissing' in the corporate world shows me you didn't have what it took in your career path. I have been an employee for various small and large firms 17 years and I haven't needed to kiss ass once. I've let my work speak for itself.
SO sorry about your luck.
One of the things that had made American industry strong was specialization. Doing what a CEO does does not necessarily add a lot of value since CEOs generally invent nothing and make nothing themselves. Yes providing guidance and organization of efforts for a large number of people is a value-adding activity - but not when everyone is doing it for himself. Furthermore our economy will work best when our best engineers are spending their time on engineering leaving other business aspects to other people with other talents.
One of the things that had made American industry strong was specialization. Doing what a CEO does does not necessarily add a lot of value since CEOs generally invent nothing and make nothing themselves. Yes providing guidance and organization of efforts for a large number of people is a value-adding activity - but not when everyone is doing it for himself. Furthermore our economy will work best when our best engineers are spending their time on engineering leaving other business aspects to other people with other talents.