{"id":61,"date":"2007-02-01T14:21:17","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T18:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phildev.net\/ccbb-new\/?p=61"},"modified":"2007-02-01T14:21:17","modified_gmt":"2007-02-01T18:21:17","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/ccbb\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"On the new job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to be a project manager for Ticketmaster starting in March.  I&#8217;m really excited about this for several reasons: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I won&#8217;t be managing people anymore.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ll be managing projects, which I&#8217;ve always loved doing.  I get a big kick when we all pull it off in the end.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ll have the opportunity to really build those technical skills I&#8217;ve been worrying about.<\/li>\n<li>They&#8217;re excited about me and my pending LIS degree.<\/li>\n<li>I will get to use my pending LIS degree.<\/li>\n<li>It isn&#8217;t where I work now.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I posted on my other blog about how things at my current workplace have been going.  It&#8217;s a rather whiny post, so I&#8217;m not going to link to it, but really the gist was that I&#8217;m tired of managing people.  More importantly, I&#8217;m tired of managing people new to the workplace.  Most of the folks I manage are fresh out of college &#8211; some are still finishing college &#8211; and this is their first &#8220;real&#8221; job. Thus, some of them have a lot to learn about professionalism.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a school pal just posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/marklindner.info\/blog\/\">his blog<\/a> some interesting comments about professionalism (and he always posts great stuff, btw), and I have to say that I agree with him.  The concept\/dogma of professionalism can be used to choke people&#8217;s ability to communicate and grow.  How often have you or someone you know been written off with a &#8220;Oh, that&#8217;s just not professional,&#8221; when really, it was just what they didn&#8217;t want to hear or they just want you to comply obediently? <\/p>\n<p>I guess the professionalism I&#8217;m thinking of is really just maturity, as applied to the work place.  The ability to choose your battles.  The ability to communicate a complaint or a critique without coming off as a total asshole.  The ability to accept change.  All of these things are hard to do &#8211; and I don&#8217;t think anyone completely masters all these skills &#8211;  but the idea is to try.  I guess I got tired of working with people who don&#8217;t even try and can&#8217;t understand why they should. Not to say that everyone I worked with is like this. It just that I&#8217;ve been in my current spot for 7 years and after a while, you get tired to teaching a few people every few months that they can&#8217;t, say, call someone a lazy bastard in an email that&#8217;s sent to the entire division and not expect to get their hand slapped for it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure Ticketmaster has a handful of people who struggle with professionalism (at least my &#8220;lite&#8221; concept of it) too, but at least it won&#8217;t be my job to teach it to them.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to be a project manager for Ticketmaster starting in March. I&#8217;m really excited about this for several reasons: I won&#8217;t be managing people anymore. I&#8217;ll be managing projects, which I&#8217;ve always loved doing. I get a big kick when we all pull it off in the end. I&#8217;ll have the opportunity to really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/ccbb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/ccbb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/ccbb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/ccbb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/ccbb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/ccbb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/ccbb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/ccbb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/ccbb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}