So on wednesday, i went to work and just as i had set up shop my boss came in for a chat. His wife and co-owner has been running the head office shop and online (a job usually done by a manager with her help but our manager had to leave us) but the hours she is doing altogether are making her sick and as you probably all agree. Health comes before business. Now with not many employees as its a small but busy business, i was running the small town shop on my own and then two others worked at the head office shop. 

My boss decided to close the small town shop and move me to the head office shop. Something i was fine with as it is actually closer to home, busier and a lot more exciting and different. So agreed to whatever he thought was best. Then through multiple hints of:

"How much responsibility are you willing to take?", "Are you open to extra hours?", "Do you want to learn more in head office?" 

I realised what was happening. Now through the many jobs i have had through the years, i have always tried my best to move up. I wanted more responsibility, more money, more independance. I never got the position. The first time was because "The training you did was inadiquate and not marked by the previous manager." the second time was because. "We have better candidates." and the third was simply because the boss didnt like me (feeling was mutual) and he said "Your not capable of being a manager, you never will be." 

So for many years i have been told i am not good enough. I don't have the ability to do a job i felt i could. It made me lose faith in myself.

When i finally got this job i have now, its a small company owned by good people. Those who appriciate the work you put in and where you're not just a number. They treat me and the other staff so well, no one wants to leave if they dont have to. I always worked hard for them because they deserved it. They deserved 100% of my effort and my extra time and any help i could give them because they took care of me back. I ended up having a huge interesting in the products we sell and doing homework off my own back. Not just because i wanted to know the product for my interest but because i wanted to be capable of doing my job to a good standard for them. 

I have always worked hard in my jobs. Always. but its not always seen is it. Especially in big companies. I thought all my christmas' came at once when they let me run the small town store on my own, giving me ten extra hours a week. I was so proud that i had worked hard enough to earn it. 

Well now i have something bigger to be proud of. I never ever thought i would say the words but im going to be a manager. 

This might seem small to some people but, in a day and age where many businessess dont survive and if they do its by treating their staff like and ignoring the ones at the bottom. Where you have to know someone inside to get there. Its huge. Something i have worked towards since starting there a year and half ago. 

So we changed some plans and the past few days and tomorrow im training a girl to do my old job and then on monday, I start my training. 

Now here is where the bad news comes in. 

I was doing 22 hours when i started writing, i got put up to 32 when i slowed down on the updates and...with this promotion i will be doing 40 hours a week. In england thats concidered full time work. It leaves me with less time to write, also i wont be able to write at work because i have an awful lot to handle in the big shop. Online orders, mixing hundreds of liquids for orders as well as other large orders from other shops and the small town shop. Then its general store management. I can't really put staff management here cause the girl that works there is more than capable of managing herself.

So naturally i plan to continue writing when i can but maybe not while im training cause ill be brain dead.

I hope you will all continue to support me. As you always have. and i hope you're proud of your author for going up in the world. I am terrified but i will endure as i always have and prove to myself and everyone else im far more capable than they think i am.

Love love love

-Manager Sally XD