The thing about…
Being a consultant, is that you can work on projects, give your heart and soul to it, own it, live it and breathe it for 2 years. You can do the impossible and the project can win awards for everyone involved, but, you don’t get any of the awards. You shrug, you hear the line about ‘well you get compensated by money’, but when you are the program manager and basically it is your baby… Sometimes you get a little nostalgic.
My last project won a very prestigious award for the company, all 65 people on the project got the plaques, the money compensation, and the accolades and party. I had to leave the company before the final release to the entire field and even if I was there, I would not have been ‘able’ to be invited to the party. I was the program manager and I wouldn’t have been able to go.
Since I have been back at the company I have been welcomed and it has been very nice. But, today, I had probably the kindest and most meaningful compliment I have ever received for my work. Someone I worked closely with on the project pulled down their award off their wall and handed it to me and told me that they wanted to give it to me since I deserved it after all the work I did and that it wouldn’t have happened without me.
I really do believe it is the greatest compliment I have ever received.
