A night for contemplation
After a year (more?) in working in a Fortune 500 company in corporate America, solving problems that the CFO of the company worries about, one thing has become pretty obvious.
Management is too damn easy.
The reason I didn't want to be a science/tech/research/academic person was that it seemed to me that while the techies decided HOW something was to be done, it was the managers who decided WHAT the company should do and really had the power to influence the macro view.
Which is why, I decided I wanted to be one of those who took those macro, important decisions and not be the guy who worked in the trenches and could not influence the larger decisions.
OR as a researcher of history or biology, I'm sure I would be terribly kicked in advancing my (and the human race's) knowledge of something - whatever it is - BUT I wouldn't have the satisfaction of creating wealth and jobs for 5,000 people and would always be bugged that what I'm doing was of no real and/or immediate use. Which is again, why I took management over science.
But while all that is well and good, the problem still remains - this stuff is too damn easy.
So there I have it - a choice between:
a) something with which I can make a big difference but which is pretty mundane and boring frankly
b) something interesting but which probably isn't all that important/makes no difference
I'm sorta resigned. The older you get, the more you realize how little you can do.
You make your choices - those which you can - and hope for the best.
Management is too damn easy.
The reason I didn't want to be a science/tech/research/academic person was that it seemed to me that while the techies decided HOW something was to be done, it was the managers who decided WHAT the company should do and really had the power to influence the macro view.
Which is why, I decided I wanted to be one of those who took those macro, important decisions and not be the guy who worked in the trenches and could not influence the larger decisions.
OR as a researcher of history or biology, I'm sure I would be terribly kicked in advancing my (and the human race's) knowledge of something - whatever it is - BUT I wouldn't have the satisfaction of creating wealth and jobs for 5,000 people and would always be bugged that what I'm doing was of no real and/or immediate use. Which is again, why I took management over science.
But while all that is well and good, the problem still remains - this stuff is too damn easy.
So there I have it - a choice between:
a) something with which I can make a big difference but which is pretty mundane and boring frankly
b) something interesting but which probably isn't all that important/makes no difference
I'm sorta resigned. The older you get, the more you realize how little you can do.
You make your choices - those which you can - and hope for the best.