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Being a manager drives me insane. I am not a “people person.” I hate dealing with conflict. Politicking gives me hives. The thought of having to coach, reproach, and honestly assess people freaks me out.
But hey, I finally found a benefit to being boss lady: I am less likely to get cancer.
Managers and administrators were significantly less likely to suffer neoplasms, or cancerous tumours, than all other level of workers.
On the other hand, apparently all my years in retail will give me arthritis and back pain (that latter is starting already) and lord knows what the pizza biz did to me–does that count as the hospitality trade?
However, I would like to call shenanigans on the “moderately lower risk of developing mental health problems.” I think I am enough to skew the data on that one.
Your pain suggests to me that you have a real concern for other people. Otherwise you would be causing them pain and not suffering so much yourself. Recently I wrote an article on my blog called “Workplaces Are Social Environments,” that describes the type of bosses that cause real pain in others. Buck up, you sound like the right kind of boss.
Dale Paulson
Comment by Dale Paulson 02.22.08 @ 2:19 pmwww.workplaceattitudes.blogspot.com
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