Joseph went from pit to prison to palace. The middle part took years and he stayed honest through it.

That life takes one sentence to summarise and decades to live, most of them in the middle where nothing visibly improved. Pit to palace sounds like a rise. It was years of unfair treatment while he kept doing the work in front of him properly. Character gets built in the part of the story nobody puts on a poster.

You are probably in a middle stretch right now, in a year that will not make the summary. Decide what you will not do to get out of it faster. Then keep doing the unremarkable thing well, and let the timeline be longer than you wanted.