many say "why? you'd be good at it. do you really want to always have to The Man?" well, my answer to the latter is yes, but until recently i haven't been able to articulate why. i just realized why.
if i were a small business owner, i'd be obsessed and overly anal about everything. not necessarily bad qualities to have when your name/fortune/livelihood is on the line, but i'd be the type of small business owner who'd lie awake at night with the following thoughts:
"we need more paper for the copy machine. i wonder if bob, my office manager, ordered paper. i wonder where bob ordered the paper from. i wonder what bob paid for our office paper. how many places did bob research before ordering the paper? did he price shop? compare quality and stock? did he negotiate a company rate? maybe bob didn't order the paper at all. i wonder how long bob has worked for me. maybe i should fire bob. but if i fired bob, who would replace him? how would i find a replacement? would bob's replacement price shop office paper? would bob's replacement find us savings on office paper enough to offset bob's severance? maybe bob spent his time negotiating employee benefits vs. office supply paper costs. that might be okay. but then again, do employees really notice if they save $5 on their health benefits? does that make them happier? would they be happier if they had enough quality office paper? would happier employees make them more productive, enough to offset the additional costs i'm paying for office supply paper?" and etc.i'd rather leave that worrying to someone else and focus on the task at hand. sure i like to run my own accounts and have control there without having some crazy micromanager to answer to, but i think i'll work smart and hard to carve out a career path that allows me to do as such without having to worry about things like office paper.
