I’m a 24 year old machinist I work CNC machines do setups and order tooling most of the people I work with have worked here for over 15 years the owner my company wants to make me the shop manager and honestly I’m not too tore up about it I feel like the older guys who’ve been around won’t want to take scheduling and manufacturing advice from a young guy I have good relationships with all the the shop guys but I’m worried about stepping into this role so soon only been with the company for three years any advice okay your boss isn’t asking you to do this job if you’re not ready for it that’s that’s number one and the fact that you don’t think you’re ready is a good sign I’ve said this before because it means that you’re humble so you feel like that that’s good that’s probably one of the reasons why you’re doing well and probably of the reasons that your boss thinks you’re ready for the job is cuz you’re humble so that’s good but you also have to remember that being humble has to be balanced dichotomy of leadership with confidence and even with a little bit of aggression so there’s a reason that you’re getting asked to do this job and the boss needs you to step up now just because you become the manager or the boss doesn’t mean yet you have to start bossing people around right it actually means that you should remain humble that you should take input from them that you can still take advice from them as opposed to just giving them advice all those things are fine and I just gotta ask this question the other day young construction business and a kid we were in a big meeting with a with a bunch of leadership foremen two engineers all in the same room a bunch of great guys from a great company and one of the young engineers raised his hand and said you know I’m young and I am gonna be in charge of these guys you know I’m not sure I’m comfortable with these guys had been doing it for a lot longer what can I do to you know gain their respect and I said okay who in this room knows more than that engineer back there about construction and all these salty construction Foreman’s raised their hands and I said who you know who’s gonna think that this guy’s got the best idea raise your hands oh my hands go down and I said so this is what you’re dealing with buddy I said now let me ask another question the group group if this kid comes in and says I know how to do this better than you listen to me and do it my way who’s gonna have respect for him raise your hand no hands go up if this young kid comes in and says hey I’m an engineer I’ve been educated but I haven’t been doing this for long can you give me some recommendations on how we do this so we can do the best job possible who’s gonna have respect for me everyone raises their hand so there you have it you you you don’t have to know everything as a leader no one expects you know everything especially as a young leader that’s okay and actually when you admit that you actually gain respect when you ask for people as input you actually gain respect people get the paranoid feeling that if they don’t know something they’re gonna be seen as weak it’s not true so you can just step up into the position still be humble still take advice now this doesn’t mean that you’re a pushover right this doesn’t mean that you just listen to what everyone says you don’t make any decisions no but it actually means that you show respect to their experience and when it comes time to make a decision you get the best input and then you make a decision and you explain your decision and if your decision is wrong you admit it and if it’s not wrong you push forward so that’s you need to your getting asked to be put in this position for a reason so do it get some seems like a common one yeah that one I’m stepping in the new role for sure everyone asks that question yeah I answered it again there you go for everyone’s benefit but my own yeah I learned from it every time well that’s the ethos right go in humble yeah be open-minded take advice yes yes yes don’t have to know everything yes three days ago our neighbor young girl one of my daughter’s friends 12 years old mm-hmm it comes over there messing around there swimming she grabs my daughter’s jump rope and she’s jumping rope she does the cross you know you join you cross cross over and whatever us over yeah yeah so he does that in man I used to jump rope in the day but I never really could be the Passover let’s face it nonetheless so she’s jump roping and jumping rope and I’m like hey do that cross the crossover thing again she does it she’s doing you know she’s 12 years old you talk like dang I never could do that and she’s like well you just got to do it like this until it’s something like okay I grab the rope can I try and the roast do small so I go grab my rope yeah I got a jump rope um well I told my daughter to grab it so she grabs it and this is like a kind of like one of those pro speed ropes you know so it’s like gonna so if I make a mistake on this rope is gonna hurt I didn’t have any shoes on I was barefoot so I’m style points off for sure 100% and then so I go for it I’m Gemma rockin jump rope still pretty good right now still I haven’t done in a while and she goes okay so right here at the top you know you you cross you this is where you want to cross at the top I try it Oh hits my foot painful and she’s like no you got to do it your time no okay no no no I never show the paint to the kids good I try not to anyway so I was like okay boom fail she’s like no more at the top you know it’ll it’ll just whatever so I’m like okay I do it and it took me four times on my fourth time I did it for the first time in my life by the way the crossover with the painful speed rope some you know some mental fortitude right there thrown here so I did it you should have seen but you should have seen the look on her and my daughter’s face they were like like it was you know like I just got my purple belt or something nonetheless so boom what do we have right there a situation this is what I took from it too we have a situation a full-grown athletic arguably person learning to do something that’s really not that easy obviously if I’ve never done it in my life learning to do something that takes a fair amount of skill from a 12 year old girl in real time and you know what I did to boot gave her the credit I said dang you are the the best you have to everyone to the muster yeah yes exactly right so that’s the thing you’re so the moral of your story which was a long story yeah yes be humble you can learn from anybody yes and when you do learn from someone give them a grep in it boom that’s what data see I said that in 13 seconds I know brow but I’m just saying it was impactful and it reminded me of that story
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