As you work at your company longer, you find that there will be more and more opportunities to become a manager. While this may at first seem like a great idea, you have better pay and a more respected job, there are a number of things about being a manager that may not sit well with you. It is not a job for everyone.
It is lonelier as a boss. As an underling you can spend more time with your peers. There is something common to complain about which gives you an opening into any conversation. Unless your company has a good program whereby you meet more of the other managers, which few do, there aren’t a lot of people for you to spend your time with. Usually, management courses aren’t long enough to really make friends with other managers. In order to give the impression of fairness you will need to be at least a little bit removed from the other employees. That doesn’t mean that you can’t keep the friends you had before, but you can’t show them that they are your friends in the workplace.
You will also want to think about the fact that all decisions must rest on your shoulders. Employees should for the most part be able to make decisions on their own, but when it comes to your bosses, or if you are high enough, the public, those decisions are still your responsibility and therefore if they are bad ones can be blamed on you. If they are good ones you can be rewarded for something you didn’t do. You can get through this by trying to find out everything everyone is going to do, or set up some kind of system so that you know about the big things before your bosses do.
It’s not all bad. There are lots of good parts, and that should not be forgotten. There is absolutely a feeling of accomplishment when things are getting done in your team. Public speaking isn’t gone, but for most managers, sales calls are. There are also, of course, the status, the power and the pay. It is also a different type of work, with different challenges and a much deeper combination of hard and soft skills. For some people this can be a whole lot more rewarding, and that is what should really be taken into account when choosing if you want to become a manager. If that works best for you, the rest of it can be solved as well.
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