Should I Strive for More?

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Joe wonders if it's wrong that he doesn't have the desire to apply for a promotion with his current employer. Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11.
0:11.5	Joe, welcome to the program. Hi, Dr. Laura. How are you doing today? Thank you for taking my call.
0:17.0	Good. Thank you. I've been a listener for many, many years, always listen to your advice and you've been a great
0:23.6	help for my whole life.
0:25.6	I'm in my middle 50s, spent maybe 15 years at a company that I tried to get, you know, move
0:34.6	up with the company and I was a great, great leader where I was in the department
0:38.8	that I was in, but never was able to get a promotion. I tried five different times and, you know,
0:47.1	tell me the feedback you got each of the five times when you went for the promotion and you
0:52.8	didn't get it. Tell me what the dialogue was.
0:56.6	The dialogue was that it was a very hard decision,
1:01.1	but they had to go with the other person because they had, you know,
1:06.6	more experience in certain areas of the lab.
1:11.2	I worked for a lab.
1:12.1	Was that true?
1:13.3	Just stay with me here.
1:15.0	Was that true?
1:16.7	No, ma'am, it was not.
1:18.3	Well, that's when you should have gotten an attorney and you probably still should.
1:23.6	I know.
1:24.5	I know that for a fact.
1:26.1	But let me tell you why I didn't do it.
1:36.3	I work in cancer care and the blessing in disguise out of all of that was that there was a company in the same industry that hired me after four
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