My place of work is currently undergoing a lot of reorganization (promotions and reshufflings) of employees since last year. It has been awhile since we had our promotions and people are quite excited about it.  You can hear people talking how much salary they could get if they get promoted, what things can they buy from it or where would they go for a vacation if they earn more and all sorts of counting the chickens before the eggs hatch way of thinking.

Weird thing is, it is very rare you hear people talk about what will be their responsibilities if ever they get promoted. They usually do not even think of what are the things they should do or even seminars or workshops or classes to go to just to be deserving of their longed promotions. All they want is the higher pay, period.

I heard a lady say “Can I just get promotion and the higher salary without the higher responsibility? I am happy as to what I am doing right now but I sure want promotion and the bigger pay.” Hehehehe! Girl, dream on..you want promotion with bigger salary? Prepare for bigger responsibilities. If you think you cannot tackle that, be happy with what you got and do not mess around with having bigger pay. Better yet, find something else that will make you happy but not necessarily paying higher pay. After all, happiness is not all that money.