--- title: "Stop Being Useful, Start Being Promotable: The Secret To Career Growth #shorts" url: https://daily.dev/posts/stop-being-useful-start-being-promotable-the-secret-to-career-growth-shorts-zfqxeyaev source_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDX_7ivBp2g type: video:youtube source: "The Serious CTO" published: 2026-05-31T04:02:03.778Z updated: 2026-05-31T04:02:41.281Z tags: ["productivity"] reading_time: 1 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Stop Being Useful, Start Being Promotable: The Secret To Career Growth #shorts **[The Serious CTO](https://daily.dev/sources/seriouscto)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Career growth requires shifting from simply absorbing work to building leverage. Being useful means handling tasks as they come, while being promotable means improving systems so problems don't recur. The key question to ask: what changed because of your work? ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#productivity](https://daily.dev/tags/productivity) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/stop-being-useful-start-being-promotable-the-secret-to-career-growth-shorts-zfqxeyaev)