Comment by floating-io
2 days ago
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.
Communicating the importance of your work is a professional skill.
And if it actually isn't very important, you should probably find something else to do or move on in some other way.
Or it gets outsourced which is what often happens.