[anigbrowl]

Is he really 'working for Apple', when he's the CEO? It'd be fairer to say he has Apple working for him.

Of course you can get rich (or at least well off) in A Job. but realistically, that almost invariably means becoming a workplace strategist and doing office politics to make sure you outpace your peers, not just performing a job you like and then checking out to focus on your domestic life.

If you are just a diligent and unselfish team member who never tries to elbow your way in front of others, you are very unlikely to become rich just from your job. Wealth tends to flow towards people who are competitive rather than cooperative.

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> Is he really 'working for Apple', when he's the CEO? It'd be fairer to say he has Apple working for him.

Apple's employees are managed by him, but both him and the other employees are working for the apple's shareholders.

[anigbrowl]

Time Cook owns about 800k shares of AAPL. Of course he is technically employed as a top level manager, but it's naive to think CEOs and other senior executives don't make decisions in their own interests as well as those of their nominal employers (many of whom never even vote on company business).

I'm not singling Cook out here, he seems like a nice person. But i think you understand that there's a big difference between being a regular worker bee and CEO of a large corporation.