Hey 'ski. Looks like I'm doing a good job, and my company wants to keep me. Got a review last week that went into detail about the work I do (writing sales proposals) and my win rate, which is only about 19-23%.

When I walked into the meeting, I figured I had a 50/50 chance of keeping/losing my job, right there and then.

Turns out my efforts will be worth about $1.2m in new business to the company this year. That makes me feel MUCH more comfortable about whether I am paying for myself, and whether it makes sense for the company to keep paying me.

The most important thing I learned in the meeting was that the sales proposal work I do is seen as less valuable than the other stuff I do... competitive research and analysis, writing market positioning documents, providing insights into the customer needs in two of our key vertical markets, etc.

So yeah! I went from, "OMG, I'm about to get fired." to "I am paying for myself, and providing significant additional value, too!"

It feels good.

And once Q4/2017 is complete and the numbers are in, I can plan for a large raise on my 2nd anniversary here in April 2018.

whew!

Now back to planning our honeymoon in the UK...