Making the move from creative to management – no matter what your practice – can be harder than you think. Verity Johnson looks into what to do when the fun is replaced by forms.
Jumping into a management role needn’t quash your creativity. Image: Shutterstock.
In my head, I’d always imagined being a boss was glamorous.
There was a lot of sharp tailoring, shouting ‘Yes! No! Buy! Sell!’ into phones, and owning an engraved gold cigarette lighter that I could tap impatiently on hard surfaces.
What I never imagined was spending all day in Kmart track pants, digging hardened chewing gum out of my stage with a ballpoint pen.
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