esteeming oneself

At the moment I'm sort of employed; I'm working a temporary job for a construction company with no definite end date. So far I've only worked three days for them, but I still feel like a fish out of the water. Their filing system is out of date and needs serious remedial help, so I spent a chunk of time today getting familiar with what should and shouldn't be there. I was mostly doing it for my own benefit, since I'm going to be working with this system consistently and feel pretty outclassed. My supervisor walked into my shared office this afternoon and exclaimed about how neat the filing section was. "Wow, Vera! You're really on top of this! You just charge right in and do it without waiting around!"

Right then it sunk in that I'm doing a good job. I've spent the past few months sitting in a little hole feeling bad about myself for various reasons. Suddenly I find myself in a position to be making somebody else's job much easier and she really appreciates it.

Not to toot my own horn or anything, but I'm awesome!