Come for the Ride!

As with Wei, I too am reflecting more so this year than in past about how I have been changing and growing in my professional development. Personally, 2007 has been a breakout year. I’ve bought a house, a second dog and gotten engaged. All pretty big stuff. For 2008, one of my main goals is going to be a movement away from being the average grunt, trying to take on all tasks myself (and not getting them all done) to putting my efforts into finding others to help with the work and use my own expertise to ensure they are doing the job right.

In my current 9-5 job, I’m still a bit of a grunt, but in the past 4 years I’ve come across the proper development environments, the proper people at work are trained on software I’ve written and I’m moving much of my responsibilities to others who it is more appropriate to do daily tasks such as logging in shipments, reporting results and creating invoices. However, as the company grows, I’ll be put in a more managerial position and others will be in charge of what I am currently. I’ll need to delegate better. I’ll need to learn to allow people to do things their own way, yet still be able to keep track of what they do ad ensure it’s done properly with my own experiance.

So, it will take time and help from Wei and Bryan, but I know moving from doing work myself to overseeing others do it will move the site along at a more rapid pace. In the end, we’ll end up with a great product and an excellent management team.