You work hard, the job is the centre of your life. Every second is invested. You work more than forty hours a week.
You're bypassed for the promotion.
You wander away, confused, hurt, angry and thinking of quitting. How dare they treat you this way!
If you have a certain ability to turn lemons into lemonade, you will grasp this opportunity.
You will work far less, push the job to the edges of your consciousness.
For the same pay you got last week when you were clocking 50 hours you now work 30. And the 30 you work are stress-free because you don't care.
You fill your life with other things, family, friends, sports. You grab every sick day, every vacation day, every chance to be away from the job.
You look at the person who was promoted being worked to death, and for what?