Recipe for professional disaster...

This is from a recent conversation, and is a general commentary on why some people advance professionally while others do not.

"...that is for project mangers to worry about. And I am not paid to be one."

(I quit a job early in my career because over 75% of my coworkers exhibited this attitude. That job was funded by taxpayers while I worked for a State agency- ...tax payer dollars only working as hard as the State employees...)

It seems to me that exhibiting qualities of a project manager will allow you to become one. Shunning responsibility because you "are not paid for it" is a recipe for stagnation.

That statement only serves to distinguish this person as limited in their ability to grow professionally.