The worst I ever did was get a job as a senior network engineer at 35. I got the certs but lied about my experience, I said had about 5 years.
First day on the job, someone gave me a network diagram and started talking about how the company network was set up. I looked at that shit like it was an ancient Chinese scroll. Couldn't understand none of it.
But I was like, "Yeah, I got it."
I was paranoid for 3 months, read everything about network design. It was like Rocky training montage.
Then, I was like, "Wait, I am the boss, I can just be the super cool manager that let people do whatever they want as long as the job was done and don't learn any of this shit and just take the credit."
My guys could leave after they finished working. They could take lunch whenever they wanted. So they had no problem with me not knowing all differences between a switch and a router. I found me a young ambitious guy that knew everything about networking, made him my right hand man, told him I'ma dip out in 3 years, so if he stayed in good graces with me, I'll recommend him for this job.
I ain't do shit at the job besides tell my right hand homie to double check everybody's work and took him into meetings with me and let him do all the technical talking. I fucked up the culture there though because everybody else found out how much time my guys were having off.
I was reading King Magazine and tryna fuck on one of the accountants . She had a fat ass. I left there and became a project manager and did even less work.
My strategy was, become a manager, find someone that gives a fuck, empower them to do everything, take all the credit and bounce in 1 to 3 years.