Is there some reason those links cannot simply be moved to the top, as in the case of other sites (such as Server Fault, in the below screenshot)?
Now about the Stack Overflow page:
Do you have any statistics on how many users actually use those links in the left bar? By "use", I mean spend a reasonable amount of time on the target page, and not "oops, misclicked that, go back".
- If I had to take a guess, 99% users (and that's counting all users who access the site, not just users who log in) have no need to frequently visit "Tags", "Users", "Jobs".
- 99.9% users have no use for the "Create Team" link since clicking on that leads to a paywall, which will almost always be followed by hitting the Back button (or equivalently, closing the tab/window).
You probably don't need to put that many links in the left bar to pages that aren't frequently accessed. Of course, you have access to statistical usage data that I don't, so I hope you have already taken that into account.
Also, there is absolutely no need for three links to Stack Overflow on the left bar. (Although one of those links leads to stackoverflow.com/questions, but that doesn't really make much difference.) You might consider fixing that as well.
Moreover, since those links are already found at the bottom of the page, the left bar is pretty much redundant. There's also a fourth link to Stack Overflow there for some reason.