A G-Wagon Has Limited Seats

Everyone can get on the bus. There are always plenty of seats. The route is set, the schedule is posted, and the path is predictable. You get on, you follow the route, and you end up where the bus goes.

That's fine for most people.

But the G-Wagon has limited seats. It goes places the bus doesn't. It moves differently, stops differently, and the people who get in are there because someone made a deliberate choice to bring them.

I use this metaphor a lot when I talk to people about the gap between a good career and a great one. The bus gets you somewhere. There's nothing wrong with the bus. But if you want to get somewhere different — faster, more deliberately, with more optionality — you need to think about who's driving the G-Wagon in your space, and how you get in.

That's about access. It's about being visible to the right people. It's about doing work that makes someone want to bring you into the room. It's about building a reputation that precedes you in the conversations you're not part of yet.

Most people spend their careers waiting at the bus stop. They're doing good work, following the path, and wondering why advancement feels slow. But advancement isn't just about doing good work. It's about being in the right vehicle with the right people.

Figure out whose G-Wagon you want to be in. Then figure out what it takes to get a seat.