His main mistake had been that he had never stuck to anything, he thought, like the accounting job in the department store that might have worked into something, if he had not been so completely discouraged by the slowness of department-store promotions.
Bere okerrik handiena izan zen inoiz ez ziola ezeri eutsi, halaxe pentsatzen zuen Tomek, almazen handi haietako kontulari lan harekin gertatu zitzaion bezala, zerbaitetara iritsi ahal izango baitzen han, promozioen mantsotasunak erabateko etsipena ekarri ez balio.