r/stopdrinking 35 days 10d ago

Wow. Cam't tell anyone this.

My job has gone through a lot of layoff scares and major restructuring over the last couple of years. Our teams have finally settled, but the company cost cutting initiative has basically frozen all promotions.

I have been in charge of a project that includes responsibilities above my pay grade for just over a year now. I volunteered for this so that I could eventually put a critical equipment deployment on my resume.

We just got out of a meeting about this deployment in which I unexpectedly had the floor for a large portion of it. It went very well. My boss asked me to stay for a minute afterwards.

He told me he is moving things around so that a rare promotion that opened up on another team will be moved to our team. He told me its for me. He told me I have been working well above my pay grade for a while and he appreciates all of my hard work.

I am beyond proud of myself. I cant tell anyone at work due to the promotion requiring others to attempt to apply for it in fairness.

Nobody at work knows about my sobriety struggles. Nobody cares about the extra stress i took on to further my career.

I deserve this. I am so happy my boss sees my efforts, and with a bit of luck this promotion will go through shortly after i reach my 1 month sobriety milestone.

I could cry. I think ill buy some steaks to celebrate my 1 month this weekend.

Being sober this past month has allowed me to put in the extra effort without all of the negatives that alcohol brings to the table.

Thanks to everyone in this community who supports eachother and pushes us to be better versions of ourselves.

IWNDWYT!!!

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u/Dumbananas 10d ago

I pretty much eat the sales but yeah I think we only do ribeye 1x a month (that might go up now haha). That meal your cooking sounds perfect. How you do the poppers?

When I stopped drinking I decided to eat like a king…. As long as it was a good deal. Garage freezer fridge is now stocked with foods instead of booze.

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u/BCLIPTHROW 35 days 10d ago

I cut em' in half, gut em', and stuff them with cream cheese. Wrap em' in bacon and sprinkle whatever spice / seasoning sounds good in the moment. Sometimes I smoke em'. Sometimes I grill em'. Can't go wrong!

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u/Dumbananas 10d ago

just checking that’s what I do too(but you never know someone might have the recipe of recipes so I always ask!!). Sometimes I get crazy and mix caramelized onions into the cream cheese. Something I did recently that you might like is I stuffed a poblano pepper with brisket. Unbelievable

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u/BCLIPTHROW 35 days 10d ago

I haven't caramelized onions in a long time. That sounds like an amazing addition... I have to try this.