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> You you can’t be in love with a particular idea or business. You have to be in love with the idea of running a business. I'm saving this quote. I'm a career
by warner25 4y ago
> You you can’t be in love with a particular idea or business. You have to be in love with the idea of running a business.
I'm saving this quote. I'm a career Army officer and the application to my world is that newly minted officers compete like mad to get into their preferred career fields / communities, because some like "Aviation" (e.g. flying helicopters) are hot and others like "Ordnance" (e.g. managing the lifecycle of ammunition and hardware) are not, but then find that 90% of their careers end up being the same HR and logistics middle-management with attendant meetings and paperwork and bureaucracy. The result is that the hot career fields actually tend to have the worst rates of retention, as officers become disillusioned when reality doesn't meet expectations, among a few other reasons. So prospective officers should really be in love with the idea of leading organizations of all various types.
- projektfu 4y agoIt also seems the actual flying is done by NCOs, right?
- warner25 4y agoWarrant officers, not NCOs. But yes, this is the crux of it. New lieutenants go to flight school alongside new warrant officers, and then their day-to-day responsibilities rapidly diverge. The lieutenant becomes an administrator who, at best, struggles to keep up with the warrant officers in the cockpit for a few years. At worst, the lieutenant ends up in jobs (as a captain and major) where they don't even have flight-hour minimums anymore.
- leobg 4y agoYou you noticed the duplicate word?