I\u2019ve had good bosses who made me feel like I could fly. \ud83d\udd4a\ufe0f<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ve had bad bosses who\u2019ve made me feel like dirt. \u2620\ufe0f<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u3164<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ve had the in-between bosses, those that didn\u2019t know what to do with my \u2018potential\u2019, but were nice to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u3164<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\ud83d\udcad I would take mental notes – \u201cwhen I\u2019m the boss, I will\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u3164<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I obsessed about becoming a boss, a manager, a leader\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u3164<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I criticized my current bosses for not having the edge that I would have\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u3164<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the tender age of 27, I became the boss. I managed 2 people, then 4, and eventually 10 over a span of 2 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And boy, did I suck at it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u3164<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I had to become more responsible. I had to care not just for myself, but for every single person in my breathing distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u3164<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\ud83d\udc7f \u201cThis sh*t\u2019s hard!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u3164<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And on top of that, as a boss, I still had my bosses. Again, I had good ones, bad ones and in-between ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u3164<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So I started plotting for the next level – how about becoming my own boss?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u3164<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2705 Yeah, that would do it, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u3164<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No limitations, this time I can really do whatever I want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u3164<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At 33, I finally became my own boss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u3164<\/p>\n\n\n\n
See, when you are your own boss, you are also your own employee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u3164<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Being my own boss equates to me having ME as MY boss. And I can be a lunatic to myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u3164<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At least my good bosses would motivate me. I can be downright toxic to myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u3164<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So these days, I\u2019m managing up. I have my one-on-one\u2019s with the mirror, asking my boss to go easy on me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u3164<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Me: \u201cI\u2019m doing the best I can!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Boss Me: \u201cIt\u2019s not enough! You\u2019ll be left behind!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Me: \u201cBut I am quite limited with my resources and time, boss\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Boss Me: \u201cShould\u2019ve thought about that before you came to work for me! Make it happen, somehow!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u3164<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Quite a ride, as you can see. I\u2019m scared I might fire myself someday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u3164<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you\u2019ve read this far, can you ask my boss to go easy on me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I\u2019ve had good bosses who made me feel like I could fly. \ud83d\udd4a\ufe0f I\u2019ve had bad bosses who\u2019ve made me feel like dirt. \u2620\ufe0f \u3164 I\u2019ve had the in-between bosses, those that didn\u2019t know what to do with my \u2018potential\u2019, but were nice to me. \u3164 \ud83d\udcad I would take mental notes – \u201cwhen I\u2019m the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,11,12,10],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-boss","tag-business-owner","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-leadership"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nparvez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nparvez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nparvez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nparvez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nparvez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/nparvez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":711,"href":"https:\/\/nparvez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions\/711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nparvez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nparvez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nparvez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nparvez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}