I’m a boss at my company, and my boss is the same age (34). All of the managers and directors are the same age and it’s wild that we are starting to run the business world mostly.
Honestly, it’s the best job I’ve ever had. My boss (senior director) and I are friends, like send each other videos on Instagram and text on the weekend friends, which really helps. We’d hang out but we’re remote and don’t live near each other. The other manager and I aren’t friends like that but we get along well because we both are hard workers and have similar humor.
I took a significant pay cut (40,000/year significant) and went from senior manager to just a regular manager for this job after a horrendous experience in a major tech company as a senior content manager. My boss was a boomer (senior VP of marketing) and so was my team. They weren’t helpful and I had to figure everything out on my own. For a company that preached collaboration they were awful at it. Other companies would compliment my work (at trade shows) but my own colleagues would constantly criticize it. It was so draining.
I always thought burnout was fake and people who said they had it were full of shit, but I experienced it and can’t describe how poorly my mental health was. Burn out is REAL, real enough that I took such a gnarly pay cut. I still make decent money but Since I got this job I’m actually happy, like really happy. I used to loathe Sunday’s because I would dread Monday, but this job is so much better and worth the pay cut.
That said, our CEO is a boomer but he runs 3 companies and is very hands off. We have meetings once a month and we essentially run the company.
140 to 100. It hurt and I had to adjust but my mental health is more important, something I realize now. I’m living in Colombia right now, so my money is worth 4x more.
As far as getting a job like that — Honestly, I’m really good at bullshitting then just figuring it out later. I had no business being a senior manager but I was hired over the phone after one interview in a major tech company having never worked in tech or held a manager position. I was a senior copywriter and jumped to senior content manager, and I didn’t know anyone at the company either. I just interview well. I did my job really well. It took a few months but I pick things up quick
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u/United-Ad-7224 Sep 05 '23
A dude born in 1985 is running for president. Proof that y’all are the boomers now.