Nobody argued it should be automatic.
If you look at how many guards become drivers compared to nurses becoming doctors, perhaps you can see the problem?
Promotion doesn’t tend to be automatic in most roles. Guard to driver isn’t and never has been a line of promotion, it’s moving from one job to another, albeit within the same industry. Guard to guard manager would be a promotion.
As for nursing, I don’t really see a problem. Nurses can be promoted to more senior clinical and management roles, can they not? If you’re a nurse and you want to become a doctor, you’ll just need to go and study medicine.
I must admit I’m unsure why you keep bringing up nursing on a railway forum!
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