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After seven years at my corporate job, I finally got the promotion I wanted.

I worked at an aerospace manufacturing company, and I finally got moved to the director

of procurement position.

Director.

What a great title, right?

As soon as I got into this position, it was like a gift.

It's like they put a T-ball up there for me to hit, right?

It was like really easy because there was a ton of issues.

It was a mess.

So I step in this position with a strategic mind and someone who can get some work done.

Right.

So I jump in and I immediately start managing the team and making some changes.

We made huge improvements.

In just one year time, we absolutely crushed it. We're able to streamline processes,

have a smaller team. People were to get promoted and moved around. It was a huge win. Just incredible.

And I was like, obviously, cloud nine. I'm like, yes. I knew when I got here, I was going to do super

well. But then something happened. I got into my third year of that position and things started to change.

The really good work I was doing and the praise I was getting from the C-suite level that was just

above me now wasn't so kind anymore. And I found myself getting into more trouble, if anything

else. And I don't know if they would necessarily call it trouble, but I just remember feeling like,

man, am I doing something wrong? Like, what's going on here? Why am I no longer able to produce the way that I was able to?

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