More promotions

Well it seems the promotion roller coaster continues it's steady progress - I got promised another raise this week and it seems that I am finally heading towards what i long thought would be an impossible goal - financial security.

I am officially not sure what it is I do to get promoted - I mean basically I am arrogant, opinionated and probing at all times. Yet those very character traits seem to be the very things others value so highly. I have been told that I can expect to continue to progress through the rungs and could expect to be a senior manager within four years (I will be forty then - now that is scary). Why should i get promoted when others who are more generous of spirit, nicer and honestly better people continue to get missed or passed over ?

Willet a good friend of mine would seem to have found a way off the rollercoaster and my hats off to him, wish i had his courage.