I hate that in order to make more money you basically have to sell your life away and deal with exorbitant amounts of stress. I didn’t realize this when I was younger so I thought I would just move up, deal with a little more stress, and still be able to work 9-5. Seeing how many hours my bosses and most of these people work and how much stress they deal with I’ve deliberately decided in the past few years to stay at a lower level because despite making less money and dealing with shitty management I still know I can clock in and clock out and come home to a life instead of being a slave to my job and emails 24/7.
It sucks though because it seems like there’s also almost never any good management at this level in my experience so you’re basically micromanaged to a tee and treated like shit. But yet I know my only other options are opening a business or moving up, neither of which I want, and who’s to say the management up there is any better? I’m an extremely independent person so it sucks to have to come to terms with this because I know that I would probably thrive in a job where I could be really independent, but if the trade off was all of that I just don’t think it’d be worth it.
So either way you’re a slave to money. No idea why people talk about moving up as if it’s the best thing in the world. Any other extremely independent-leave-me-alone types who are stuck here because they don’t want more responsibility?