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Overvalued.<\/span><\/p>\n Now I could be real nihilistic and period full-stop this post with just that and call it a day, but then it would sound like something traumatic had occurred, and I wanted to be vaguebooking about it or something, which is not accurate at all.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n This post stems from a conversation had over dinner a night ago where it was determined that I lacked ambition, because I don\u2019t really want to strive for any leadership positions in my career. The thing is, I\u2019ve been in positions of leadership already, and although I did take a lot of satisfaction in being the best leader I could and the relationships I cultivated with my reports, it really still amounted to a tremendous addition of stress that I feel is wholly unnecessary at this juncture of my life, and I would much rather just be given objectives and the space and means to do my job to the best of my ability and be for the most part, left the fuck alone.<\/span><\/p>\n The problem is that I feel that the working world we live in places a tremendously inflated sense of worth in leadership, and not nearly as much in the ability to get shit done, as in the people with the ability to actually move a company\u2019s objectives forward.\u00a0 I\u2019ve made no secret that throughout my career, the most difficult people to work for are the people that I know can\u2019t do my job in a moment of need, and I find it tremendously difficult to respect and accept any sort of judgment of my talent from those who have zero idea of what I do.<\/span><\/p>\n If I could rephrase my original statement, it\u2019s not that all leadership is overvalued, but there\u2019s just so much piss poor bad leadership exists out there that it just makes me feel like all of it is overvalued, overrated and feeds the narrative to how the working world is just so broken and misguided.<\/span><\/p>\n At my previous employer, I was promoted into a position of leadership, which I willingly went into, because I felt that I had reached a ceiling with my entry-level designer role, and I felt ready to move up and try to climb the ladder within the company.\u00a0 But the thing is that even though I was in a position of leadership, it was always, always important to me that I still know how to do the jobs of my former peers now reports, because there was no way I could be any sort of leader unless I knew the job at the same granular level from those who have to do it.\u00a0 But because I was promoted from within and I wasn\u2019t brought in to abruptly lead people whom I didn\u2019t know, I felt that I was very successful at being a leader on my team, because everyone knew me, knew my background, and knew that I was good enough to be a decision-maker.\u00a0 It\u2019s just that I had a massive cunt of a boss above me that actively made my life a living hell to where I had no choice but to cut and run, regardless of how much my team brought satisfaction to me professionally.<\/span><\/p>\n So that\u2019s where I\u2019m really going with this, is that it\u2019s not that I lack ambition and don\u2019t want to be a leader, it\u2019s that my whole idea of leadership is that it\u2019s something that grows organically and leadership rises and takes shape, and it\u2019s definitely not something that can just be plugged into a team or a company, by someone who has fluffed up their resumes and qualifications in order to get the job.\u00a0 That type of leadership is the leadership that I don\u2019t want to strive for, even if it makes it look like I\u2019m not ambitious.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019d like to work a job where I\u2019m paid well for the work that I do, and I want to get so good at it, that I organically rise to a position of leadership, to where I can lead in the best way that I think I can, which is typically by example, and typically in a servant leader capacity, and not some game-playing schmuck who only knows how to delegate and live in Excel and Outlook all fucking day and have no actual talent.<\/span><\/p>\n Unfortunately, like so much world, that\u2019s just now how things operate these days, and short of me winning the lottery, it doesn\u2019t seem likely that I\u2019ll be a part of a working world that jives more with my ideals and ideas that work ethic and talent competency is what\u2019s needed, instead of the ability to \u201cplay the game\u201d and \u201cit\u2019s who you know\u201d and other flaky bullshit that shapes the job market today.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Overvalued. 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