Being more challenged is gonna let people know where you can go next within the place of employment. You might be asked to go to do other levels of work. Getting cross training in the job site. getting skills that you have never been able to do before getting a well cross trained job.
Being competitive is a very independent successful way to be. To say i am working in a competitive job. Now i have been promoted to a higher position Doing a job that I have learned from being challenged from other past job experiences.
Competitive employment makes you think about being an adult and the things that are required of you as an adult of making those choices and knowing that you have to live with them in your life. What is your competitive dream now that you know you have to live with these choices in your own adult life.