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By Work Rewritten

The Career Ladder Was a Myth of Its Time

Why doing everything right may not be getting you to where you want to go now.

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Work Rewritten by Sam Alvita
Dec 16, 2025
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​Virgil Abloh, the founder and CEO of Off-White, was never supposed to be a fashion designer. He was supposed to be an engineer.

He studied civil engineering at the University of Wisconsin and earned a master’s in architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology, credentials that pointed toward a predictable future, a slow climb at an architectural f…

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