This article felt very relatable to me. I feel like it's not just management we learn on the fly - being an adult in general. Maybe that's why I still feel like a child sometime (I'm 35), and why my mother reported feeling the same at the age of 55 - it always seems like everyone else has their shit together, and like no one warned me just how hard adulthood can be. Then, looking at the children in my life, I realise why no one warned me - in the same way that I want my nephews to enjoy childhood and be carefree for as long as possible, the adults in my life wanted the same for me. But how did I learn how to do my jobs? At-times-painful experience, observing others, and consuming content (books, youtube, podcasts) about self-improvement and skills such as time-management and learning techniques, all driven by a shit-tonne of insecurity.
That's such a lovely observation — we don't warn children how hard it is because we want them to enjoy their childhoods.
Thank you for the feedback about how you learnt to work. I'm finding this so interesting, as I increasingly appreciate that many of us are so highly-trained to do our jobs, and yet are fumbling around in the dark in terms of how to *work*.
This article felt very relatable to me. I feel like it's not just management we learn on the fly - being an adult in general. Maybe that's why I still feel like a child sometime (I'm 35), and why my mother reported feeling the same at the age of 55 - it always seems like everyone else has their shit together, and like no one warned me just how hard adulthood can be. Then, looking at the children in my life, I realise why no one warned me - in the same way that I want my nephews to enjoy childhood and be carefree for as long as possible, the adults in my life wanted the same for me. But how did I learn how to do my jobs? At-times-painful experience, observing others, and consuming content (books, youtube, podcasts) about self-improvement and skills such as time-management and learning techniques, all driven by a shit-tonne of insecurity.
That's such a lovely observation — we don't warn children how hard it is because we want them to enjoy their childhoods.
Thank you for the feedback about how you learnt to work. I'm finding this so interesting, as I increasingly appreciate that many of us are so highly-trained to do our jobs, and yet are fumbling around in the dark in terms of how to *work*.