GET OUT OF MY HEAD. In a small company, the owner/CEO is much more inclined to come in and micromanage a process he/she doesn't understand, or is unqualified to do, just because they are the boss and feel responsible so must be in control. In my case, non-technical execs have come in and outright told me to do things a certain way because that's what makes sense to them... even though they have no experience with it. Or they ask you to explain it to them in 2 minutes or less using small words so that they can make an educated decision for you. "Uhh... you need 10 years experience just to get the groundwork of what I'm talking about... nothing at all like your sales and marketing background..." Then it becomes my fault for not explaining it to them better. There are very few executives who will just turn to you and say, "we hired you for your expertise and experience, do what you think is right, just educate me on the business implications of the various options". At least in a bigger company there seems to be more isolating layers between you and the "do as I say" types that know nothing about what you do... odds are your immediate manager/supervisor has SOME experience with your job.
This is what my wife also pointed out. Leave now before you are forced to. I've done this a million times. It basically boils down to uncertainty vs what I know. My job treats me well. I have no idea how this one will treat me. But I'm much more excited about the work. So why not take the pay bump and try it out?
Do you think you will regret not taking it? Me and my husband are younger than you and no kids yet. We went through a decision making period and the uncertainty was a big part of the difficulty of it. As a compromise I kept my job an extra month while he moved up there to make sure it was a good fit. The extra income is nice, too. Your situation is way different but this worked for us.
Our old CTO, whom I still keep in contact with, said this is exactly how the startup he worked for after ours was before he left a few weeks ago. He didn't care how smart she was or what her CV said, she just un-coachable, total micromanaging tyrant that wants him to walk her through each aspect of what hes coding, when he just needs to sit down and write the code based on what she wants it to do. This is in a company of 11 people. Because of that, he thinks they will fail in the next 6 months. Luckily ours isnt like that. Thank god.
I find that this is actually the hardest thing for me to work on personally, as well... you have to trust your team, but also know the right moment to insert yourself into the situation when the need arises. You can't micromanage, but you also can't just let them do whatever they want. It's tough to do effectively, while maintaining positive team morale and effectiveness.
At a finance company I contracted for, the CEO asked me to justify, line by line, a list of security items I wanted to implement. "What does this firewall rule do? Uh huh. What is "torrent"? Oh. Is it bad? Okay." About 15 minutes in, I told him that we could set up a meeting to review these items, how long I thought it would take, and reminded him of my billable rate. I suggested that maybe this wasn't important for him to understand in that level of detail, but he said he wanted to do it. And that's the story of the time I billed a customer more than $2,000 to give Explain Like I'm 5 descriptions of dozens of firewall rules to someone who forgot everything I said within 24 hours. The office manager was a little irked when she got the bill and saw it cost her $1,000 for a network audit/remediation, and $2,000 to tell the CEO about it.
The fact that a CEO wanted to be involved in audit remediation / action plans (unless it’s a public company) says a lot.
Look what I found!!! An entire gallery. We now have a coffee table book of his paintings and his “Why is the blue dog blue” children’s book. I have friends from LA and grew up on Cajun cooking so the blue dog legend holds a special place in my heart. Plus, ARF! Didn’t find a free boat by the gallery though.
Yeah, she was irked at him, not me. She knew. CEO was the nicest guy you ever met. Just no ability to delegate tasks he didn't understand.
"Hey...this is a spacecraft " "We don’t want to get in the way of a good story, but that’s definitely us," the GoodYear Blimp account wrote, "We left the Charlotte area 5/29 after covering the Coke 600."
Why is there never, ever a clear shot of these UFOs? Theyre always off in the distance, over the horizon or super grainy. Everyone has an HD camera. I need some higher quality shit here.
There used to be a bunch of blimps: Goodyear, MetLife, Fujifilm . . . I think Outback Steakhouse even had a blimp once. In like 2001 or so when I first moved to the house I'm in now, I was out working in the yard, and heard this sort of "gas leaf blower in the distance" sound. It kept getting closer, and I realize it's overhead. I looked up and the Fuji blimp is practically on top of me. Flew over the house very low and freaked me right out. But it was cool. Hooters missed out. They could've had a double blimp. Blimps: RIP.