Talk it through with Aurelius
Doing the invisible glue-work with no career path to show for it
You do a hundred jobs no one names — the glue that keeps everything running — and when it's time to point to a career path, you can't. The work is essential and invisible at the same time, and invisible work doesn't get promoted.
◆ How this problem reads on the two dials
GuidanceKnowledge
1:1 with AureliusWith others (a Pod)
Real craft in making the invisible legible and building ownable outcomes (knowledge), plus the reframe that illegibility isn't your failure (guidance).
How the two dials adapt to you →What’s really going on
Glue work is real work, but the ladder rewards legible, ownable outcomes — and "kept everything from falling apart" is neither. You're not undervalued because you're not valuable; you're undervalued because your value doesn't fit the shape the ladder measures. We make the invisible legible, and find the ownable outcomes a career is actually made of.
🔒 What you’ll build togetherUnlock by starting
KnowledgeWhy glue work is essential and un-promotable
KnowledgeMaking invisible work countable
KnowledgeTrading some glue for one ownable thing
KnowledgeTelling the story of what you actually do
A moveList the disasters you quietly prevented this quarter — that list is your invisible work.
A movePick one glue task to convert into a named, owned project.
PractiseName the glue · a Pod of 4 · 25 min
What changes unlock by starting
- Your invisible work becomes countable and named.
- You own at least one legible outcome the ladder can see.
- You can tell the story of your value in the org's language.
- You stop being essential-but-stuck.
One object, two jobs: a public answer to a real problem, and — the moment you start the chat — Aurelius’s live plan for your version of it.