Reasons to go for promotion

[freepend]

Just wondering what people's reasons are to study and apply for promotion?

Money?
Status?
Personal Achievement?
Power?

I earn a decent wage at the lowest of my profession and live comfortably. I see a managerial role as being fraught with supervisory issues and it holds no appeal to me.

What were or are your reasons for applying for promotion? Would you do it again?

Money, and reaching my career goals. Also not feeling 'stuck' ~ I hate knowing how to do everything in a role and then feeling bored. Always working towards the next step makes my brain feel engaged and motivated.

For me it would be money and personal achievement but nothing is free, and I have not pushed myself for promotion yet, as worried about too much stress and not having a work life balance. Waiting for kids to be a bit older.

I was so bored in my last role wanted something to do.

Went for and got promotion. Get nice payrise too.

In 2-3years I may feel similar and want a new challenge

This is great, so it seems to be more for personal benefits than financial. I just can't get past the "dealing with issues" from employees.

We work in an office and our office manager is continually overwhelmed with constant personal problems and non work related problems.

Not that I'm non empathetic but it seems to take away from the job at hand dealing with problems which aren't really relevant?

Personal achievement and money ... which meant zi could retire 10 years early, wit woo!

Honestly? I don't like being managed. The closer I am to the top the more I'm told to just get on with things without being ( micro) managed.

Recognising that managing people is not for you is important. It might be possible to progress without having that responsibility but I guess it depends on the role.

I always thought I didn't want to manage people and so avoided it for many years but I am now in a managerial position.

I have to stay it depends on the team - mine are all pretty high level themselves so can be trusted to get on and do their work so it's not too bad.

Money!

Yes to all of the above lol.

Money is my biggest motivator, and next is impact. I like being able to make decisions that are seen and felt, I like being 'somebody' in my organisation.

That might all sound a bit vacuous, but it's my truth as they say

(I do hate managing people though, it's only good when you get someone normal or motivated).

I wanted to make decisions, not just be given tasks to do.

Money.

I do love my job and I am good at it but behind all career based decisions for me is money. Maybe one day it will be less about that but not right now.

Money here too. Even with sideways moves it’s always with a view to moving up. I’m about to finish managing a fairly big team and swap it for a smaller team and a bit more money which feels like living the dream - managing people is bloody hard work especially if it’s in a target-driven environment.

I coy definitely do without managing people!