I have worked very hard over the last couple of years without anyone noticing and I have been disappointed.  For whatever reason, I have been passed up for promotion after promotion and everyone has ignored me.  But, that never stopped my dedication to my job and the hope that I would be recognized one day.

It wasn’t until the new district manager came to our shop that I was finally noticed.  He asked if I could help him with setting up the group management software package that all of the branches were switching over to.  I was honored to be asked and it took just a couple of days to do it.

Imagine my surprise when he asked me to be the group leader of the sales team at our branch.  I was ecstatic to be given the opportunity, but I had to ask him why he was chosen.  He responded that he had seen on my last couple of reviews that I had experience managing teams (specifically I coached little league), and that being a group leader wouldn’t be much different.

Well, that was just two weeks ago and I have settled into the role of being group leader.  I think this is the role that I was born to do.

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