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Originally posted by KSigkid
It's not only you who has said it, and I probably shouldn't direct my responses only to you, but I just get annoyed by the whole "When you get older, you'll realize real responsibility" argument.
You're certainly entitled to your opinion, but I just felt the need to respond with mine.
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Noted, and now, I hope you will allow me to share my opinions without branding them as nonsense as someone -- not you -- did earlier in this thread.
One of the buzzwords in hiring or promoting management level people for the past few years has been "progressive responsibility." I think that means that as you gain experience, perhaps manage more people, bigger projects or a bigger budget, you also gain the skills and understanding to keep on progressing into more and bigger responsibilities.
In most businesses and the military -- which is part of what this thread talked about earlier -- more responsibility comes with age and experience.
Sorry, but how many thirty year old Fortune 500 CEO's do you know of? There may be a couple, but I can't name them.
That's not to say that older people are smarter. Some people are naturally more gifted than others. Brother John Elway wasn't a Hall of Fame Quarterback when he graduated from Stanford, though -- although the basic skills were there to hone. Nor could Colin Powell have understood how to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs when he graduated from West Point. (I think he went to USMA -- if not, change "West Point" to "college").
In school, you learn theory and basics. In business you learn how things really work. Isn't that why there are internships -- to learn how to turn theories into reality?
To rankle at the suggestion that greater responsibility comes with age and experience would assume that a person pretty knows all there is to know and is ready to tackle anything life or business has to offer coming out of school.
I just can't agree with that. I think it works that way in our personal lives as well.
Of course many of us have/had responsibility (and stress) early in life, but most of us continue to gain knowledge, experience and responsibility for many years.