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> It has probably effected your career, you could've gotten promoted faster, but did not.

Nah, I disagree. I've worked my ass off at companies, gotten standing ovations from regular users who knew what the work I did meant, and still gotten terrible raises. Contrast that to simply leaving a company every 2 years, and I get an amazing pay increase. Your skill, contribution, and talent have nothing to do with your promotion speed. If anything, the harder you work on real skills, the less likely you are to be promoted in my mind. The best climbers I've seen have been also the most bereft of real skills.