Episode 92: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

   When this blog is published, I will be starting my first day in management at my job the next day. I'm very excited but also very nervous. I have wanted this for a VERY long time and it was both crazy and thrilling to see it all start to materialize over the last few months. I told my former boss I wanted to be a supervisor, and when our current boss took over and started to pester him about it. 

   Which makes me wanna reiterate the point of persistence. The squeaky wheels gets the grease. I was very squeaky, and now the grease has been applied. There were so many times I felt like I was being annoying, like I was gonna blow my chances simply for not being able to shut up. I even told my boss that I felt like he was annoying, to which he applied that I wasn't and told me "the squeaky wheel gets the grease". The key when you're seeking something from your higher-ups is, I guess, as my friend/former coworker (he was a current coworker at the time) put it, to be persistent but not annoying. Thankfully and fortunately, I guess I succeeded in that. If my boss was annoyed by my constantly asking about promotion, he certainly didn't show it. Maybe he was annoyed but that just shows how cool of a dude he is that I had no idea.

    These last few months, and especially these last few weeks, I've been struggling to walk that thin line between talking about my promotion and expressing my excitement about it while also not bragging or coming across as braggy. Especially to my coworkers, as I know some of them would like to be in management, or maybe even think that they should've gotten that spot instead of me. I don't think I've come across as braggy. I certainly don't mean to. It's hard not to talk about such a big moment in your life.

   And that's part of why I'm very nervous. It's a very big thing. I've never really been in charge of people before, now I'm going to be one of the people in charge. People are going to depend on me. There will likely be times where I'm the only person in management present, meaning I will be the boss. 

    I'm super stressed. But thankfully I think my excitement is outweighing the stress. I have worked very hard for this, for a long time. 

    I don't mean to sound like an actor accepting an award, but I'd like to thank God for letting this happen. I'd like to thank my superiors at work, especially my boss, for taking notice of my hard work and choosing to give me this promotion. I'd also like to thank my friends and family for supporting me on this quest leading up to my promotion and cheering me on and congratulating me once I achieved it, and putting up with the constant messages of new updates on what was happening pertaining to it. 

Anyway, see you next week!