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How many have a job in management?

i used to be assistant manager at a toy store... it was no different than being a regular employee - except i got a title.. there was only 3 other people who worked there besides the owner and me!
 
I used to. Worked for a small company and was over 5-7 people in the NOC. Took a job for a bigger company, went all the way down in rank to Computer Tech but the pay r0xerz and benefits are great. A lot less stress and I can focus on school.
 
Currently, I am the manager of my cubicle.
My first job out of college was as the shipping department manager in a warehouse. I made sure that I was no. 1 at crushing boxes in the shipping trailers.
 
I'm afraid to take the move up to the management.

At the moment most of the cuts seem to be coming from my boss' level and his boss' level.

I'll get there someday though..... I hope. 🙂
 
I'm a Project Manager for a Construction Management Firm.
I answer directly to the CEO, who is also the majority owner. (He even lets me do a lot of HIS work for him 🙂 )

We only have 9 employees total, including 2 Office workers and 3 Field Managers.
 
Closest I've ever been to management is working as a foreman several times, and being a business agent for my union. Both would at best be considered "low-level management".
Hated the politics as a B.A., and you never could leave the job at the job...Being a foreman had it's PITA factor as well. Spent several years as "Barge Captain", which, while I wasn't foreman over the crews I worked with, I had the responsibliity over the barge movement & scheduling, all maintenance & the rest of my crew. THAT I enjoyed. It was always my goal to have the best maintained & orderly barge in the fleet. Pride in workmanship...
 
I was a general manager for a McDonalds for about 4 yrs.
Usually in charge of about 6-8 assistant managers and 50 crews.
Finally quit a month ago.

Don't forsee going back unless I get desperate again.
 
Manager here. I'm over a (small) Unix support group. Did management stuff without the title before, to a degree. Management seems to be less time doing what you got into the job to do, and more time either handling procedural BS or protecting your people so THEY can do the stuff you'd rather be doing.

Good fun.
 
I have a better question. How many were hired to be technical but wound up as managers - without a promotion?
 
I've had a dream of sleeping my way to the middle, but no one finds me appealing enough, so I'm still in the mail room.
 
Originally posted by: DCFife
I have a better question. How many were hired to be technical but wound up as managers - without a promotion?
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Yep, that pretty much sums my situation up to a tee.

I ended up being manager by default. 😕

And I REALLY never wanted it!!

( I guess that means it's OK that I'm not very good at it then. 😀 )
 
I had a job at Sears that was described as "management" but it was basically gopher/bitch work and I had no power or subordinates.

I grade for some courses in my major and sometimes get assigned to teach to my peers when the professor needs a break (going to be a Senior this year). I'd suggest that grading is essentially the equivelant of management in the academia world when you're still a student. When people find out that I determine their grade, demands are met real quick 😛

Otherwise I've never worked in management and it's looking like I never will *shrug*
 
Small-business owner with about 12 employees and 2 partners, but while I manage at least some part of every aspect of the business and its employees, I don't assume a title of manager.

Much of what I do is in response to an increasingly complex social dynamic. Working with people from different countries and different cultures introduces a lot of nuances in communication and behavior. Sometimes I feel I'm more of a pseudo-psychologist than anything else. I simply try to enable those I work with by removing the impediments in their road to progress while simultaneously making everyone feel they are of equal importance. Not easy.
 
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