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It says I was:

You were born on a Sunday.
Your star sign is Capricorn.
Your birthstone is Garnet.
The season was Winter.
You were born in the Chinese year of the Ox.
The US President was Ronald Reagan (Republican).
The UK Prime Minister was Margaret Thatcher (Conservative).
You are 24 years 7 months 2 days old.
It is 151 days until your next birthday.
In dog years you are 168 years old.
You are 8,980 days old.
You are approximately 215,537 hours old.
You are approximately 775,934,714 seconds old.

Dear Ms Terry,

The month of July marks our firm’s annual change of order. With much heraldry and anticipation new heads are introduced, positions are shuffled, and deserving employees move up the firm’s success ladder. Nonetheless there always few that are left just the way they are, unmoving, unchanged.

I have been serving the firm for almost three years now and have been applying my self the best I could to its strenuous and stringent requirements. Assuming that in a couple of years serving as an assistant I will eventually become a semi-senior. But last year was different, due to certain constraints only a handful of audit experienced juniors were promoted. I was not promoted, tough luck, but I decided to plod full on. I felt minute and very much humbled then but I chose to stay hoping, and as in turned-out - vain hopes, that next year will be better.

I don’t question the firm’s judgement, if does not care for my sanity lest my feelings, but as an auditor accounting people’s transparency I want a clear view of why I was not promoted this time around. I am clueless, why I should be humbled twice and forced to my knees? I am at a lost, why I should be the infamous faceless cautionary tale that would always be invoked as this guy-who-was-twice-passed-over?

I am sorry if this seems too emotionally charged but in the light my current predicament and being pushed against the same wall twice is just about the formula to fill anyone to the brim.

Respectfully, JoMic