Need advice regarding career/finances

[brianmanahan]

After doing something for 5 years, you will be sick of it. Any interest that turns into a career is going to no longer be an interest. It's called work.

Your goal just needs to be to get up the career path through promotions.

instead of getting promotions, you can jump to another project when you get tired of your current work

i'd much rather do the same type of work on a new project than get promoted out of doing that type of work entirely