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When the company didn't increase your paycheck, but you promoted yourself by working less for the same salary
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Always work the minimum amount that doesn’t get fired.
That entirely depends on the management structure. I took on extra projects when I first started my career in IT as a help desk tech, and it got me promoted to an engineer level position in a pretty esoteric field in under 2 years.
But I knew the IT director liked to hire from within, and my boss liked to brag to him about the team, so I knew putting in the effort would pay off. I was also basically treating the job as a paid internship.
You just have to be able to read the room, which admittedly can take a bit in larger companies.