I wonder how many people spend significant amount of their early working life doing low-wage jobs whilst trying to "make it big" as an influencer.

And I wonder what percentage of Starbucks managers started out as Starbucks wage-slaves.

The YouTuber / professional gamer scene is hyper competitive these days. I know someone who has spent the last 5 years trying to make it on YouTube and has not really made any progress.

I believe store managers do tend to come from on the floor staff but there is likely no path from store manager to Starbucks corporate.

Programming is almost uniquely privileged where you end up interacting with higher up corporate positions frequently and you will pretty easily be able to learn their jobs and jump over if you want.

While retail workers don’t see at all what goes on in an office separate to them. They just get instructions dictated down.

YouTube personality/gamer star is this generation’s Hollywood. People used to move to LA and work jobs whilst trying to get a break into the industry — and of course very very few ever succeeded.