I went to Trade Secret today to apply for a Sales Associate job. I was planning to take it as a second job.
Instead, they informed me that thier manager had just quit. Apparantly, my cosmetology training and supervisory experience qualifies me for the manager postition.
That was A LOT more than I was expecting. How do I fit this in my life? Can I handle the responsibility of handling a whole store by my self? Can I still go to school. My dream is to be a teacher. Can I fit that all in? AhhhhhhhhhH!!!
I hope I get it and hope I don’t all at the same time. Send me good mojo!
You wrote CAN but the sentence reads better with CAN. The MHO remark seems concilatory.
Why would my angst mean I COULD do it. I’m confused. Can you clairify?
Sure. I started to in that post and then deleted it.
Its late. I’ve been up for about 23 hours. Please keep this in mind as you read my reasoning.
First of all, confidence is over blown. I remember a joke that goes 80% of people think they are above average drivers.
I also remember a study which concluded in part that the biggest problem incompetent people had was that they did not recognize their own incompetence. Spcifically, it found that people who performed poorly at work often thought they were performing much better than they were. Meanwhile, people who were performing well at work though they were performing worse than they actually were. The researchers speculated that competent people percieved their own performance as needing improvement, so they always try a little harder. Incompetent people can never recognize their own need for improvement, so they never do. You can’t fight a battle you don’t even know needs fighting, as it were.
What I am trying to say is that your ability to recognize the possibility that you may not be able to handle this job, may be an indication that you actually can handle the job. It is at least an indication that you have one of the tools necessary.
Please don’t take this idle thought of mine too far. I’m sure that a line such as “I don’t think I can handle the job” would look too good on a resume. But we are on a message board, so I am taking some liberties and making judgements based on extremely little evidence.
I escape into MPSIMS from GD just so I can do this.
I don’t mean to rain on your parade here, but I think you need to figure out what you need from this job. If working full-time as a manager would interfere with a long-term plan of yours, it might not be in your best interests to take the job, even if it sounds great. I learned this the hard way; I had a part-time job that didn’t pay well, but it was okay, and the hours and duties were great. Then I went full-time, and that’s when the wheels fell off. It just didn’t fit with me anymore, and I ended up leaving the company.
What sometimes works for me is to figure out what I would regret the most. Would you regret not having time to go to school and get your teaching degree, or would you regret not taking this opportunity for a good career?
Yeah, you just basically outlined exactly what is going on in my head.
I want to get my teaching degree, Badly. I also want to eat and live. With my current job, although the hours are great for school, the pay is complete crap. It’s a stretch to pay everything and have some money left over for school.
I am going to take the manager test tomorrow. If I pass, great. If I don’t, well, I will learn to budget better and somehow make it in the long run. I know there have to be people who work full time day jobs and go to school at night. They make it work, why can’t I?
Puffs up with renewed self-confidence…Quickly deflates again and runs off into the night, weeping.
