My Greatest Fear....

...I've decided, is that I could be on the fast track to promotion.

I recently got a promotion, and my boss LOVES me. I know that she's "grooming" me for the next level. Our company is going through a growth spurt and certain people are getting promoted pretty quickly. Sounds great, right?

However...

I hate my fucking job. I don't like what I do... but I am very good at it. I'd LOVE to do something else (after spending about a year on the beach recovering from 20 years of nonstop work....) but everything I'd like to do requires a boatload of additional schooling, and I don't want to spend the money.

I'm really afraid I could get promoted again and end up spending 90+ hours a week at work like my boss does. It's EXPECTED where I work, at my level and above, and all I can think about when I'm at work is how long it is until I can go home, how many days until the weekend, how many weeks until my next vacation.

I feel like I'm wishing my life away. And this promotion that I recently got ended up netting me more money, in a more expensive town (so my actual net pay, after expenses, went DOWN), and many, many more hours every day at work.