Im poster of the above (#3041), wanted to add this in.

By way of context, I genuinely enjoy small-medium firm type work (doing a bit of everything, more ownership of work). Reading the forum and hearing horror stories is making me concerned I will obsess about chasing my way up before realising I am not cut out for that type of work. I can only hope that is a realistic self-assessment and not just self-comfort since it appears it's near impossible to get there in the first place..