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》Wanting to push for promotion is already rare,

Promotion often comes with more work, more responsibilities, more meetings, more commute to office... with only marginal pay increase. In reality you lose salary (as dollars per hour).

I turned down promotion a few years back. I would "manage" three people, in reality doing their work. I would lose home office, and have to find babysitter. I would spend 80 minutes in traffic every day, paying for my own car and my own gas! No time left for cooking, so food delivery! All for generous pay increase of 20%!

This "promotion" would ruin my family life, and reduce my disposable income by half!