Starting at the bottom only becomes a problem if you unpack and start living there.

Entry positions are temporary by design, and most of the risk in them is not the position itself but the way a few years quietly become a decade. Comfort arrives, the role turns familiar, and the plan that brought you there stops being examined. Nothing dramatic goes wrong. It simply stops being a beginning.

Set a rough date to check where you are and put it somewhere you will see it. Ask what you are learning now that you were not learning a year ago. If the answer is nothing, that is the signal.