Comment by JohnMakin
2 months ago
This is just recycled advice that's been given for 30+ years. "dress for the job you want, not the job you have" etc. The thing is this only really "works" in healthy or semi-healthy environments. You could just as easily have an infantile, poorly qualified, easily threatened middle manager above you that will perceive this kind of behavior as an attack and take the legs out from under you in ways that you have very little control over (has happened to me)
Then the only way to progress your career is to leave the company.
In many cases, yes, sometimes it involves a parallel move to a different part of the company, or the manager moving on - problem is when you're in that situation it may not be obvious for literally years until it becomes very obvious in an instant, and by that point, your options may be more limited.