Many moons ago I wangled a job overseas where I found the workload was ridiculous. What made it worse was that my counterparts elsewhere were over-manned and under-worked. One got an MBE for charity work during his tour and when another det was reduced in size the biggest complaint was that there would be no-one to teach soccer in the local school! Needless to say they were promoted.
The most important thing is to be your own person and do what makes you happy. If the fallout of that is that you don't get promoted, well so be it. If you want a relatively secure job until you are 55 then play the game. The choice is yours. If you don't like it then leave and start a new life. You'll find the ones that have the courage to leave are the ones that will succeed.