Nervous breakdown

Alright I exaggerate… a bit.. There were two I considered important events these past two days. The first one was the assignment as instructor for training held by my country’s institute of public accountants. About 50 participants showed up from small and big accounting firms. Small firms were mostly critical and annoying! Big firms were rather quiet. A participant tested my accounting knowledge by questioning a particular area he already knew the answer. My senior manager later told me that he was just showing off and that I shouldn’t bother to take him so seriously. Well, it was quite an experience. I bet most of them were confused: why me, a "little girl”, about half his/her age or even one-third! I heard a participant telling his friends that I could be the chairman of our accounting institute 20 years later. Whether he was joking or for real I couldn't tell. I don't care anyway.. I'm not interested.

The second one was promotion day. My name was not listed as one of the promoted ones in the pop-up message in our system or the announcement board. True, I was disappointed but I kept my head up, smiling and congratulating those who succeeded. I tried not to think at all and concentrated more on my job.

Later in the afternoon, HR partner announced that the salary letter was ready for collection. I was reluctant to get mine as my boss was on leave. But I was deadly curious. Perhaps deep within my heart I wished the letter would say differently and that I was promoted. Until I opened my letter and said: Congratulations, you are promoted to XXX position with salary XXX!! The next morning, the HR manager realized the mistake himself then came to apologize and promised to get my name on the promotion list. I didn’t really care anyway. All that matters was that black and white letter signed and sealed! Hmmmm, it gave me shock therapy for the entire half day.