> You seem to want to be recognized for your contribution with increased responsibility.

But you don’t need a “promotion” for that. Even when I was at BigTech, there was nothing stopping me from volunteering for a more impactful project. No one was going to tell me that I wasn’t allowed to do it because of my level.

I had a junior consultant/returning intern that I mentored as an intern and then when they came back over a smaller project that usually would not have gone to someone at their level. They had proven to the department that we could trust them to both do the work and be in front of the customer.

I was there as a backstop if needed. But when we flew fk the customers site, I intentionally stayed in the background and deferred to them.