USI audit work pressure - Help!
Hi
I’m a senior in audit and a mother to a 2 year old. I work honestly and put in the effort. I’ve never been in the top 25 percentile performers, but I’ve consistently been in the middle 50 percent. I’ve never had any major issue or warning level feedback. The recurring feedback I get is that I miss small details sometimes, like a formula error or a date rollforward issue. None of these have ever actually impacted audit results.
On my regular client, I’ve always performed really well. These slips usually happen on adhoc clients and maybe I take those assignments too lightly without realizing it. Using this as a “consistency lapse,” my promotion to Manager got deferred.
The thing is, the promotion itself is not even what’s hurting me the most. I take negative feedback way too personally.
I recently had a manager change after working with the same manager for more than 3 years. With this new manager, the rapport just isn’t there. It feels like he projects his own delays or lack of understanding onto my document mistakes and makes them bigger than they are. I honestly can’t deal with all the office politics and drama.
The problem is I’m someone who genuinely tries to take accountability for my mistakes. But now it’s starting to consume me mentally. I’m taking these people and their opinions way too seriously.
My husband keeps trying to counsel me and make me feel better, but I’m stuck in this mindset that I’m constantly making mistakes and that I’m the only person who makes mistakes.
I don’t know how to get out of this headspace.