To me, that's really neither here nor there. But it was embarrassingly touching after that, when people were going around the room for questions & comments, people who were being aligned under the examination function kept saying they wished I was going to exam too, instead.
I can't express how much better it is to work somewhere people think what I'm good at is important. Not having to keep my head down and hope for tolerance, hope that I'm useful enough (or at least invisible enough) to get along.
