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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you had an opportunity to move up within your company (more compensation, higher title), but were not sure if you like responsibilities of the new position (more talking, meetings vs. hands on work stuff), would you do it? The higher level position seems to be fewer hours, but many people whom you respect think it is totally BS job and are wondering why it even exists. [/quote]

Nope, and in my old job, I refused a "promotion" because I hated the job that person was doing. I hated that he was on call 24-7 (as I was if something in my department went wrong, but he was extra on-call): the go-to person if something went wrong at any hour of any day/ weekend/ holiday with anyone that we worked with, and if a client locked his keys in his car or could not dig out of a snowbank- they called him. He did bookkeeping for various sub-companies, and I never did bookkeeping (and never wanted to). The boss was perplexed when I said I didn't want X's job, for an extra $5-10k/ year, at all.[/quote]

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