Managing a company

Managing a company has its ups and downs throughout the day, week, month and year. When managing a company you have the freedom to do a lot of things. You also have the headache of dealing with everything from employees, customers and money. I began with the company I am with now in August of 2007. I decided that college wasn’t for me (AT THE TIME) and walked away. Working my way up through the company I was eventually offered the Operations Manager position in June of 2010. At first I was unsure of what the entire position held. There was a sense of excitement and nervousness all at once. I began working immediately and was handed the reins to the entire company. Where do I start? What exactly am I to do? What goes here? What goes there? All these questions were going through my head. I did not receive a complete orientation into the position, I was just told to“sink or swim.” I’m not sure if the owner of the company had full faith in my abilities to do the job or was just going to really see if I would sink. Fortunately I swam and have continued on this journey. While this is great in all aspects, learning how to swim was not easy. I was twenty one at the time and was forced to manage employees who were double my age. Can you imagine the response the first day I told them to do something? This took time and effort on both sides. Another learning curve that was presented was dealing with customers. I had to learn to walk the walk and talk the talk in a position that I was trying to learn all at once. On top of that, I was put in charge of all accounts and transactions dealing with the company’s money. I had to make up for money that was not spent as it should and also try to save money for the future. These tasks were not easy and left me with my mind going ninety to nothing all the time. I still to this day have things running through my mind about the company well after I leave my job, but  the ups have slowly leveled out the with downs.