So , those of you who are in managerial positions … how long did it take before you achieved your first management role ?
management , means people management role …
1- Immediately
2- 2-4 years
3- 5- 8 years
4- Still waiting for one
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Stupid question but what' is counts as a manager?
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3 ) 6 years
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Sara , not a stupid question at all .. coz management does have different meanings in different firms ..
Management here means People management, taking responsibility for a full project and a team .
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Right out of college/university.
No my dad did not own the company. 
I had the most marketable degree of those days.
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wow lucky you Mirch …
Took me 4 and a half years to get to the management level … loads of hardwork and training later :hinna:
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I pretty much started managing a team 8 to 10 months into my first job - no genius here... all i did was join a very very small startup, worked like a slave for the first few months and as soon as things took off, bingo! i had my own team :)
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So those of you who started managing teams so early on in your career .. did you get management training? what was the pressure like?
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the only management training i got was this sanguine adviCe from my CEO, " KUTTON KI TARAH KAAM KARAO IN SAB LOGON SAY" :P
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ohh dear lord.. thats not a wise advise, is it .. in this country I would lose my job if that was the management tactic I dared to choose 
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Alright, well these days I am an office manager for a division of a nonprofit, it's only seasonal so thats why I wasn't sure if it counts. I was hired based on my prior work experience, but as for how to deal with workers (esp as some of my staff can be REALLY rude) and stuff, no I never got any training for it.
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thanks for sharing Sara .. its a not for profit firm , how come people can be this rude and get away with it too? must be a really tough environment to survive in ...
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actualy for hte most part, it's not bad...its a friendly and relaxed atmosphere, and everyone is wonderful to the clients...and majority of my staff is great, it's just htese 2-3 ppl who are just all sorts of weird and insecure.
Oh well!
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hmmm .. we got those troublemakers in almost every workplace ..
In most of my management training sessions one of the key areas covered is dealing with the difficult lot and how to tame them down ...its always a very helpful thing to get appropriate training , it becomes easier to handle troublemakers without getting yourself in trouble or making the matter worse..
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So those of you who started managing teams so early on in your career .. did you get management training? what was the pressure like?
I used to hang around in lalukhait with my lalu khaiti friends so dealing with trouble makers was not a big deal.
I am serious. You can get the most prudent training in people management if you were born and raised in lalukhait or had a chance to hang around there with your friends.
People of lalukhait are not trouble makers but they know how to handle trouble makers.
I got master level degree in management that is why they made me manager. They did not know anything about me having exposure to lalukhait school of people management but seriously that was very handy . Being street smart is one of the per-requisite traits of successful managers.
Sometime you have to play as a good cop and sometime as a bad cop.
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@Mirch when i was a kid i read a hindi comic book....
and main character visits pakistan and he goes to infamous laalukhait....is it in karachi?
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Yes it is in Karachi. Many agitation movements were either started from there or gained their momentum when people of Lalukhait joined them.
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My first full-time job after graduating - I was assigned a team to manage 6 weeks after I started. All of my staff were contract employees. No training provided. Did that for 6 months.
Changed jobs and 16 months into the new job, I was asked to manage a team while my reporting manager was on leave. I did it for 18 months and was asked to continue but wanted to gain exposure to other businesses, so changed jobs internally (lateral move, non-management role).
I was asked to mentor the juniors on the my team, but wasn't responsible for managing a staff again until 2 years ago. During this latest stint, the company sent all people managers on training courses - focusing on communication, performance management, etc.
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My first full time job in pakistan was a management job n that was not even in my field. I was doing full time studies in the eve so I did whatever work I got. The job was being the In-charge of Container control department in a shipping company. I had no clue abt the industry, the way how things worked over there, the org political culture in pakistani org and on top of that the 25-30 ppl I was managing were all in the age grp of 30-50 having an avg exp of 20 yrs in the field.
I was fresh out of high school n the only experience of doing a proper job I had was of teaching n tutoring so it was very challenging for me initially. Especially when u hv 2 go 2 the docks, deal with customs, the bribery ( coz I was the 1 approving the tenders of transportation companies n others) oh man the things I learned n the experiences I had they were more then a handful. But Alhamdulilah I got a job in my field in around 11 months n I was out of there.
But the experiences I gained were v helpful when I got a proper management position in my field after the next three years. I think I can claim that I learned more management in those 11 months then my MBA degree lolz