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How career expectations conflict with personal preferences

My captain wants me to apply for promotion but I like patrol and do not want to manage people and I feel like I am disappointing everyone.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Everyone wants you to take the promotion, but you actually like the job you already have.

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