Why I Turned Down A Promotion At 29 Years Old

I also took a $10,000 pay cut

Alice Vuong
The Startup
Published in
4 min readSep 12, 2019

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Photo by JJ Ying on Unsplash

As my peers and friends were looking for managerial positions and switching careers for better pay and a more important sounding title to their name, I was on the verge of quitting my promising career at my company.

I was working at a well known accounting firm with an international presence. My performance…

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