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I got a question from Sam and Sam wants to know about becoming a manager without any
management experience.
This is quite interesting.
He says—becoming a manager with no management experience.
"I'm a QA automator with 5 years experience.
I was offered a position as IT director by a friend, devops guys who works at a company,
but I don’t know if it's a good idea.
I lack any real management experience and the last director was there 9 years as the
main developer.
My current job keeps me happy because it's low stress, great work life balance and people
who appreciate me for once.
However, there is barely room for growth in terms of salary and experience.
I can just pay my bills.
What should I do?"
Additional info, he says, "I'm not expected to be a strong developer at the new place.
My friend definitely helped me get the job.
He is respected there.
I've never been happier before at a job than now, but, ironically, I'm barely able to pay
my bills.
My new jobs pays a lot better at 50% more what I make.
I'm excited but scared as shit.
I'm leaving behind happiness for …" The last one is the most relevant.
It's fear.
You know what the right decision is here.
It's very clear, it's very obvious.
Everyone that’s listened to this question already knows what the right decision is.
Fear is holding you back.
That's the honest thing.
That's the truth.
You're afraid.
You're afraid that you won't measure up.
You're afraid you're going to fail.
You're afraid of leaving behind what you have and what's comfortable to you.
That's normal, that's fine, but you can't let that fear stop.
You can't let that fear hold you back.
If you want to grow in life, the only way to grow in life is to do what makes you uncomfortable.
It's to face your fears.
I've had to face my fears in life.
I've done some videos.
You can check out my videos on facing fears.
I've got another video for you on doing these that make you uncomfortable.
You can check out the talk I did on that.
That’s the only way to grow.
That's the truth in it, is that that's what this decision is coming down to.
I mean I could give you all the reasons and I will.
We could talk about this for a little bit.
This position, you're able to barely pay your bills right now, and this position pays you
50% more.
Take it.
Your friend is hooking you up, all right?
You've never been an IT director, never been in management before, but you've got five
years of automation experience.
So what?
Go do it.
Go find out what it's like.
I mean maybe you won't be the best IT director to start out with, but man, you're going to
grow so much from that experience.
Even if you fail, even if you totally screw it up, you're going to grow a lot.
This is one of those experiences that—it's another level for you.
Now, the only thing I'll say about this that's—the only reason I'll say not to take this job
is if you don’t want to go down this route.
If you like doing QA automation and you do not want to be a director, you do not want
to go into management, if you really care about that and you're passionate about what
you're doing and you don't want—you won't be happy doing management.
You don’t want to go to the management track at all, but that doesn’t seem like that's
the case here because if that were the case, that's what you'd be talking about in this
email.
You'll be telling me that.
If that's the case, then yeah, don't be a sellout.
You know, being a sellout is not when you take money for something.
Being a sellout is when you lie to yourself about what you want and what your intentions
are and you do that for some other gain.
Something that you—and usually, for some gain that you think that will give you status
that other people value.
Okay?
If you say, "Well, shit.
I want to make a bunch of money and this is a good way to make a bunch of money."
You're like you're honest.
That's not being a sellout.
That's being honest.
You have this value and you're being true to that value of having a lot of money, right?
If you pretend like it's for some other reason, if you're like, "Yeah, I'm taking this job
so I can make a difference in the world, that's why I'm taking this job as a CEO of this company
that is going to pay me a million dollars a year."
Bullshit, sellout, right?
Because it's not aligning with your value.
If you're honest like, "Man, I really couldn’t care about the environment, but I do care
about a million dollars," fine, great.
Not a sellout, right?
Do you know what I'm saying?
That's the difference.
In this case, what is it?
What is your value?
Figure out what your value is.
That's what you got to figure out here, but like I said, I think it comes down to fear.
Every indication shows me that this is a better opportunity for you, so long as you're okay
with making this career shift.
I don’t see any reason why—at least you've indicated that you wouldn't.
As far as like surviving in this role, I don’t know.
I mean heck.
Your friend obviously has some confidence in you.
He's not going to put his reputation on the line if—I mean probably not if he thinks
that you're going to fail as an IT director.
You should always get it over your head.
You should always pick some kind of job or take experiences or opportunities that are
above and beyond where you think you are.
That's how you grow.
That's how you stretch.
That's how you become better.
Every single major step that I've ever taken in my life, I've been scared as shit.
Every time when I first got on camera and got behind videos, and hired a professional
videographer and all this stuff, I was afraid.
I didn’t think I was ready and, to some degree, I still don't think I'm ready, but
I do it anyway and I grow from the experience.
That's what it is.
All things being equal aside from that you just don’t want to go to management at all,
I totally would say take this job and I think you're going to succeed at it.
Even if you don't, man, the experience the learning that you'll have from going through
the process will be well worth it.
Once you've got that title as IT director, I think that you'll be able to get another
job pretty easily.
I wouldn’t worry about like losing this current job that's paying you shit.
It's not paying you enough money anyway.
Go take the opportunity.
All right, that's all I got for you.
Face those fears and good luck, and you got a good friend there too as well, it seems.
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