Getting promoted inside your own team does not make you powerful. It makes everything awkward, quiet, and tense, because the rules changed and nobody bothered to tell you.
Hard work doesn’t get you promoted in tech, it gets you more work. If you’re exhausted, overlooked, and still “almost senior,” this post breaks down the trap high performers fall into and how to escape it.
You can give everything to your job, and it still won’t love you back. But your team might. Your people might. Invest in them. That’s where the real legacy is.