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By taking more responsibilities and delivering beyound your pay scale. Prove that you can be trusted with deadlines, build a reputation for relentless on time

By taking more responsibilities and delivering beyound your pay scale. Prove that you can be trusted with deadlines, build a reputation for relentless on time delivery and take responsibility. You will be suprised - that if you start taking OWNERSHIP of what you do - how fast people will come to you and literally beg you to be in their projects.

ChuckNorris89 4y ago
>By taking more responsibilities and delivering beyound your pay scale. Is that a healthy advice for someone struggling with Burnout/depression like OP? And I beg to differ. Taking on lots of work is by no means a guarantee to management promotion everywhere. Often management positions go by means of connections, and are awarded subjectively to the favorable people management likes most, not to the most productive people. That's why so many managers are clueless and nearly incompetent. Because it's not always a meritocracy.
- SantiagoElf 4y ago
  > Is that a healthy advice for someone struggling with Burnout/depression like OP? Yeah, depression/burnout is not real. It's just how a person decides to deal with high levels of stress. Stress will not go away. Better deal with it by pushing through it either by working more, going on vacations, sex trips, donations to charity causes, etc. In the industry I am in - I didn't know anyone, before I started, hell, I even didn't know anyone in the city I moved to. It's all a struggle, endless struggle, like life is supposed to be. Of course, you need to have conversational skills, soft skills, be able to hold a conversation in different topics, be funny, witty, smart and charming in order to be promoted. You definetly can get promoted based on your own merrits WITHOUT relying on connections that you had before the job. The trick is to build your conenctions on the basis of your work, soft skills and charisma WITHIN the company you want to grow. I am sorry, but with most things in life - climbing the ladder is a competition - success is not guaruanteed, and being good at programming is not the only requirement.
  - ChuckNorris89 4y ago
    >Yeah, depression/burnout is not real I should have stopped reading your comment here.
    - SantiagoElf 4y ago
      What colour is YOUR Bugatti ? :P
      - freedom2099 4y ago
        A Bugatti doesn’t make you happier! After a certain threshold you don’t need more money to be happy … just more time!

ChuckNorris89 4y ago

>By taking more responsibilities and delivering beyound your pay scale. Is that a healthy advice for someone struggling with Burnout/depression like OP? And I beg to differ. Taking on lots of work is by no means a guarantee to management promotion everywhere. Often management positions go by means of connections, and are awarded subjectively to the favorable people management likes most, not to the most productive people. That's why so many managers are clueless and nearly incompetent. Because it's not always a meritocracy.

SantiagoElf 4y ago
> Is that a healthy advice for someone struggling with Burnout/depression like OP? Yeah, depression/burnout is not real. It's just how a person decides to deal with high levels of stress. Stress will not go away. Better deal with it by pushing through it either by working more, going on vacations, sex trips, donations to charity causes, etc. In the industry I am in - I didn't know anyone, before I started, hell, I even didn't know anyone in the city I moved to. It's all a struggle, endless struggle, like life is supposed to be. Of course, you need to have conversational skills, soft skills, be able to hold a conversation in different topics, be funny, witty, smart and charming in order to be promoted. You definetly can get promoted based on your own merrits WITHOUT relying on connections that you had before the job. The trick is to build your conenctions on the basis of your work, soft skills and charisma WITHIN the company you want to grow. I am sorry, but with most things in life - climbing the ladder is a competition - success is not guaruanteed, and being good at programming is not the only requirement.
- ChuckNorris89 4y ago
  >Yeah, depression/burnout is not real I should have stopped reading your comment here.
  - SantiagoElf 4y ago
    What colour is YOUR Bugatti ? :P
    - freedom2099 4y ago
      A Bugatti doesn’t make you happier! After a certain threshold you don’t need more money to be happy … just more time!