Finally did. Scared about what I will be doing tomorrow night. I don’t want to end up with another hernia. Off 8 weeks recently because of it. I should have demoted myself before I came back. Scared of change I guess. Now my feet hurt. Factory job. 48 Male
I agree. I’ve never been in management but I also have absolutely no desire to be a manager. Any place you work, they emphasize opportunities to move up in the company and they like to talk about a career path for you. Well what if I’d rather just develop more skills in the field I have and become even better at it for reasonable pay? But unfortunately it’s bad to say you don’t want to move up in a company. I’m not sure why though, maybe it says I’m lazy or stagnant or something? I would just rather focus my development on what I’m good at and become even better at that thing. But fuck me, right?
This, 100%. I love to learn and get better at my skills. I don’t want to waste my time hounding other people or dealing with social aspects. I want to do my job.
A lot of that is because it is believed that an employee needs to grow in order to be satisfied in their position, at the same time the only path that employers have is to move someone out of an individual contributor role into the management track once they hit a senior level.
Good employers will have upper level individual contributor track positions that are well paid, or at least have a job level where someone can stay at forever. Even then, if your boss thinks you would be a good manager you can end up forced into the position.