I'm reaching the point in my career where visibility in the company is more important for promotions than my technical skills. I hate networking with a burning passion. Should I just give up on getting promotions? I already make more money than I need.

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"Visibility" can come from many things and you don't have to be constantly self-promoting to boost your career. Sometimes, just being the person other know they can rely on to get the job done or being the person who always knows the answer is enough.

This might also be a good discussion to have with your manager. The best managers I have will promote their team members and their visibility. If your manager doesn't do this, you might consider changing jobs.

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Just curious, what salary or TC are you currently at that makes you super comfortable? I would love to be at a point where I’m comfortable to stop the grind

Would you be happy doing the work you're doing long-term?

Talk to your manager about being on more project kickoff meetings and being more available to stakeholders for questions. Your competence in your work will speak for itself, no deliberate networking required.

That's a question you have to answer for yourself. I think if you hate networking, you shouldn't try to go into exec. level positions. You'll have to do endless networking there.

Senior IC's also end up well networked and not really IC's

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