What's the matter E? ------- Having second thoughts? They say hindsight is 20/20!eolesen said:Is it the culture, or the fact that most mechanics would rather work with their hands and brains solving problems than pushing paperwork carrying out someone else's orders, k and dealing with the politics of supervising your former peers?....
eolesen said:Is it the culture, or the fact that most mechanics would rather work with their hands and brains solving problems than they want to spend the rest of their career watching others solve problems while they're stuck pushing paperwork, carrying out someone else's orders, and dealing with all the politics that come along with supervising your former peers?....
None of that has to do with the corporate culture... At least management pilots still get to fly a couple times a month. The folks who supervise the other workgroups never get to do what they were trained to do, and might even enjoy...
So why do the job for years on end if you don't enjoy it?...bigjets said:I'm willing to bet you won't hear, i like solving problems, especially in august outside at 1600 on the D gates. Or on midnights at JFK during a blizzard.
I love solving problemseolesen said:So why do the job for years on end if you don't enjoy it?...
For us every day is different, by the time you get bored there is a new fleet type arriving.eolesen said:Best advise I ever got: never stay in a job more than three years. You spend the first year learning it, the second year enjoying it, and then the challenges are few and far between.
Amen, Topcat870. And, the micromanagement doesn't change that much from one company to the next. Saw many examples of this at Texaco over 20 years ago. There was one manager in IT dept. at Texaco whose employees would have followed her to the end--even if she told them to "line up double file and we will all jump off the roof." Her employees would form neat double lines and wait for the instruction to proceed to the roof. I asked her once what was her secret. She replied that "the day I became a real manager was the day I realized that my employees knew how to do their jobs better than I did. That my job was to run interference for them, and otherwise stay in my office and leave them alone."First of all, management at the lower to mid level is more like a secretary job. It doesn't take much to repeat what some micro-manager tells you what to do and say. You will have someone telling you to do things you know wont work. Rather than them telling you to get X results and leaving it to you how to get X, they will tell you this is how I want you to get X results. When their way doesn't work, you will do your part and take the blame for their poor business decision.
Yep. It's the same approach I took: run interference, and don't interfere...jimntx said:She replied that "the day I became a real manager was the day I realized that my employees knew how to do their jobs better than I did. That my job was to run interference for them, and otherwise stay in my office and leave them alone."