Chapter 8 - MY OWN CAREER FINALLY ENTERED THE ROOMThe strangest part after my identity became known was watching people discover I worked.
Margaret had seen me on a laptop hundreds of times.
She assumed I was:
“doing little freelance legal things.”
I was deputy general counsel for acquisitions at Westbridge Health & Mobility.
My team handled transactions worth billions over several years.
I worked remotely because after Nora was born, Dad’s company allowed flexible executive arrangements.
I earned my salary.
Had a law degree.
Had a professional record completely separate from my trust interests.
Margaret once stared at me during a mediation and said:
“You understand all of this?”
I looked at her.
“Which part?”
“The debt structure.”
I almost laughed.
“Yes.”
She looked ashamed.
Then I said:
“Notice what you just did.”
“What?”
“You’re surprised I understand finance because you decided years ago I was useless.”
She looked down.
Good.
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The important correction wasn’t that I was secretly successful.
It was that she had never bothered to find out.
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