Staying Put

I found out today that they are going to be looking to promote some of the people at work and my supervisor suggested that I should apply for one of the promotions. I've been working at a higher level for several years now and not being officially recognised for it. It would be nice to get the promotion as that will open up more opportunities for me in the future as well as give me a greater earning potential.
Earning more could mean that I can afford to purchase additional leave or even take some of my leave at half pay. That way I can spend more time at home with the kids during school holidays and also allow my wife to work longer hours, if she wants to. If this all comes through then it will probably lock me in for a further two to three years in the same team doing the same sort of work.
One of the downsides of the promotion may be that it results in longer hours for me, that's not for certain and there will be peaks and troughs but I would be expected to suck some of it up and not be able to claim as much overtime.
I used to work in a retail store where I was on a fixed salary as an assistant store manager. I didn't get any paid overtime and I was expected to work at least one weekend each month. The salary wasn't even that great and I wasn't getting any personal bonuses, the whole store got an annual bonus if we exceeded our targets for the year, that also meant that you had to stay there until the end of the year and have been there for the whole year to get the whole bonus. If you started during the year you only got part of the bonus and if you left before the end of the year you weren't entitled to any bonus at all. The store manager was on a similar deal but he got bonuses if the store did well so it was kind of in his interest to put in extra hours to earn the annual bonus as they could be pretty good as they were based on a percentage of the amount you exceeded your targets by.

Bomber
Moving up the corporate chain (hopefully).