Should I Go for the Promotion?
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
Audacy
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
I’m starting to feel burnout at work, and I’m being pushed by leadership to take on even more responsibilities for a promotion. Should I do it?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Jill on Money Show. It's Wednesday, October 22nd. And we are here chatting with you about whatever it is is on your mind. And it shouldn't be anything that is too big, too small, to anything. There's no judgment here. So anything that touches money and your life and the |
| 0:22.3 | intersection of those two things, get in touch with us. We're happy to help you out. Go to jillonmoney.com. |
| 0:28.4 | Click the contact us button. Write us a note. If you would like to join us on the air live, |
| 0:33.5 | check the box. Mark will do everything else. While you're're on the website you can check out all the cool |
| 0:37.9 | content that lives there we've got a free weekly newsletter when you subscribe to that you will |
| 0:42.4 | automatically get my blog post which is now running it once a week maybe it's twice a week |
| 0:46.7 | it depends how i'm feeling and you'll see all the other content that lives there okay now it is |
| 0:53.0 | time to do an email show. |
| 0:54.3 | We've got a lot of emails piling up. |
| 0:57.3 | So I'm already nervous about this particular subject from Nathan, whose subject is sequence |
| 1:04.0 | of return risk. |
| 1:05.8 | All right. |
| 1:06.2 | Can I stop now, Mark? |
| 1:07.3 | This already feels like work to me. Hello, Jill and Mark. I recently |
| 1:13.4 | retired, actually, two years ago. When my job was becoming less fun and more stressful, I had not |
| 1:20.1 | done extensive research on the fiscal aspects of retirement during my work years. After retirement, |
| 1:26.3 | I started reading what I could. I listened to |
| 1:28.6 | others and their experiences. And I began listening to podcasts where I stumbled upon your YouTube |
| 1:34.5 | channel. Your daily shows are entertaining and enlightening. Oh, Mark, that's so nice. I quickly |
| 1:40.6 | learned that my wife and I are doing well financially with a healthy retirement account, |
| 1:44.2 | brokerage account, and pension. We have not yet started Social Security. Sequence of return |
| 1:50.4 | risk still concerns me. I have heard this is financially risky in early retirement. Okay, |
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