Sysadmin crontab question

i added a cronjob with crontab -e
and although i tried the command crontab -l
it appears to be empty
i have looked in these files and directories in /etc/

Code:

anacrontab
cron.d
cron.daily
cron.deny
cron.hourly
cron.monthly
crontab
cron.weekly

please note that i am sure the cronjob is running because it works properly and it notifies me so it has got to be another noobish thing i cannot sort out

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thank you in advance