On Dec 5, 2006, at 10:17 AM, Lisa M. Bronson (TCP) wrote: > So, where are you at in your technical communication career? Are you in > management? If so, are you happy being a manager? If not, would you > like > to be a manager? Is that one of your career goals?
If you're voted into a position of leadership, that is one thing. However, managers are never elected. They are always selected by the other powers that be in a corporation. This means that those who advance do so because they look familiar (thus safe, thus unthreatening) to other managers. If it doesn't "smell like us", it doesn't get promoted. It's the incorrect application of the survival instinct. The only way up is to become a corporate non-entity, take up golf, wear the right clothes, and do the usual rigamarole that signifies to the other managers that you are one of them. You don't see too many distinctive managers, and there's a reason for that. Pack mentality / survival instinct. > I am not a manager, and while I wouldn't turn it down if the > opportunity > presented itself, managing the department I'm in right now is not a > career > goal. But I have been supervising high school interns doing I3D project > work. If we reach a point of hiring people to do I3D work, I'd enjoy > managing that group. > I doubt that even torture would make me consider management. ~Tarage ______________________________________________ Are you a Help Authoring Trainer or Consultant? Let clients find you at www.HAT.Matrix.com, the searchable HAT database based on Char James-Tanny's HAT Comparison Matrix. Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] for details. Interested in Interactive 3D Documentation? Get the scoop at http://www.doc-u-motion.com -- your 3D documentation community. _______________________________________________ Technical Communication Professionals Post a message to the list: email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, unsubscribe, archives, account options, list info: http://techcommpros.com/mailman/listinfo/tcp_techcommpros.com Subscribe (email): send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe (email): send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Need help? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get the TCP whole experience! http://www.techcommpros.com
