To me, the point is the money. As long as a job doesn't take up more time than I'm willing to give (I'm just not the kind of person who is driven enough to work 60+ hour weeks), I'll take the promotion.
I always laugh when people here say that in retirement they'll just do a "fun" job like work in a coffee shop or movie theatre. Hahaha! Low paying jobs are soul sucking too, they take a ton of your time also, those jobs aren't worth anything either, they don't result in producing something great or giving you a sense of purpose, etc., and someone else could do them, AND on top of all that they also don't pay well.
I'm definitely someone who separates life passion from work. I actually really like my job, but it's not who I am. I don't think I'll ever have a job where I feel a sense of greater purpose or fulfillment, but in my mind, that's why I get paid. I could quit my job tomorrow and the world would lose nothing, I would be immediately replaced. What my job does for me is give me financial security, provide for my family (whom I love more than anything, that's my true passion), allow me to travel with loved ones, allow me to do fun things, learn, solve problems, and do it all in a pretty cushy existence. I'm not up at the crack of dawn doing manual labor outside, I'm sitting in a cushy office in a major city doing something that I have a talent for with reasonable people who are friendly and nice, and for me that's enough.