Focus on investing your money, building up an asset portfolio (I suggest commodities over stocks/housing in the current market, but that's not the important par

Focus on investing your money, building up an asset portfolio (I suggest commodities over stocks/housing in the current market, but that's not the important part here). Your financial future should depend on your wealth compounding, and not on your number of promotions. And of course for wealth compounding timing is key: the earlier you start the better it will be for you over time.