It's one of the most infuriating things. As soon as you get any entry level job, everyone and their brother starts telling you, “work hard, you could be management someday!”
And like, management is the only retail/food/whatever position that's really respected, because everyone else gets considered as something less than human.
But not everyone can be a manager. And I'm not saying that in regard to personal ability, I mean structurally; managers help a larger place run, managers assist multiple other people in doing their job, there HAS to be a lower number of managers to staff ratio.
You can have a whole team of fantastic workers who all work really hard and have a lengthy skillset.
You can't make the entire team all managers.
But people act like the management position is the only one worth having, and if you get a job in that area your goal MUST BE to become a manager eventually, because anything less is underachieving.
Why should every single team member in existence get socially pressured to one day reach for management? If they're all managers, you won't have any team members to actually run the place.
Team members are important too.