How amazing! Your humility is beautiful! With this attitude you cannot go wrong!

I feel the same about promotion and responsibility. Worse, I have an expectation to work towards promotion or I could be fired despite being happy where I am. It's really unpleasant and stressful.

That sounds pretty normal. So are you getting symptoms from the excessive stress as it is?

That's a perfectly normal response. Not everyone wants to keep adding more responsibilities to their plate. Like me, for example! They tried to promote me last year into a management position, which I have no interest in doing. Instead, we compromised and now I'm kind of a pseudo-manager, where I basically run the team while giving the tedious management responsibilities (like performance reviews and budgeting) to someone else.

You just need to talk your concerns over with whoever is promoting you, and work something out. Don't take on new tasks unless you give away some other ones, otherwise you will burn out.

I never asked for promotion or seeked it, but I was always asked, I never said no, I am quite in a high position now, but it was never my intention to be where I am today.

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