My company gives out awards called making a dfference, that you can be nominated for by colleagues or your manager, and I just got one. They're for doing a really good job or going above and beyond the call of normal duty. I got mine because I reduced the time it took to close month end from 10 days to 4 days, even though I've only been on the job for three months.

It makes me really happy to be recognized, and it's a nice boost to my self esteem.

I was off work for 18 months due to mental health and addiction issues and it's been kind of hard getting back into the swing of working full time, so it's nice to have concrete recognition that I'm doing a good job..

--splitimage