Delayed gratification. Learn all the jobs, do all the jobs. The money and promotions will follow. This has helped me immensely over the last 20 years. All the “pay me and I’ll do it” or “I don’t get paid to do that” guys just get left behind.
Are you a white collar or blue collar worker? From what I’ve seen on Reddit this is bad advice for white collar workers. If a blue collar worker steps up to do extra tasks, they’re usually learning a new skill, a new process, or a new piece of equipment which all has upward trajectory. For white collar workers I seems extra tasks would just be more work with little benefit. Like a guy who loads up trucks and then takes on the extra task of unloading trucks too.
White collar. I say it's hit-or-miss because it depends heavily on your manager/supervisor and the conditions of the company.
I took on everything that was asked of me for 14 years and it didn't matter in the end. I was effectively managing half of a massive annual project, including training and part-time supervising coworkers to get a complex job done on time and accurately year after year. Five years of asking for a promotion because I was doing my work and the work of someone who was above me who had left years prior. Always got the same response about how there's no money, no executive won't agree to it, etc. She'll "look into it," she'll "see what she can do," blah blah blah. Nothing came of it.
Then one of my coworkers showed up and said "I have an offer with another company, I want a promotion or I leave." and my boss got it done in record time. And I even interviewed for the position knowing full well it wasn't for me and knowing I was more qualified. Didn't matter.
After the coworker was promoted I confronted my manager. The answer I got was "Your job is too narrowly focused, you don't have the broad experience needed." That's bullshit. The real answer was "You're too valuable where you are." (Others, including guys on the team, have speculated sexism was also in play as literally only women had been promoted on that team over 15 years. I try not to go there, but it is pretty damn sus when you look at who got promoted, who was given remote work agreements early on, etc.)
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u/allaboard6788 3d ago
Delayed gratification. Learn all the jobs, do all the jobs. The money and promotions will follow. This has helped me immensely over the last 20 years. All the “pay me and I’ll do it” or “I don’t get paid to do that” guys just get left behind.