GLOBAL PAYROLL MAGAZINE
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and family didn’t see was that I was struggling. Hiding a deep unhappiness and daily burnout behind a big smile and a confident, bubbly personality. I’d spend days decompressing after social events, and then days mentally preparing myself for the next one, practising and rehearsing conversations in my mind. I didn’t know it at the time but payroll and my career were a lifeline for me, a safe space to hide from the overwhelm of life. I’d spend hours
every day engrossed in the details of manual calculations, year-end processes, NI tables; all the nitty gritty of technical payroll. Later in my career that transferred to projects, I’d pick on anything and everything to overhaul, streamline and transform. I developed a passion for leadership after a series of bad managers stoked a fire in me and brought to life my deep sense of fairness and justice, empathy and care. I threw myself into developing others, This came with its own challenges, however. I had a million ideas on any
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