+1 As an ex-dom leader seeing programs/strategies succeed or even helping people who want to contribute but didn't know where to start was a very rewarding experience.
That being said, I did have times where I felt very unappreciated and like people were taking advantage of all the work I was putting in and not recognizing how hard/time consuming it actually was.
High fives and/or sympathetic back pats from a fellow ex-dom lead. And +1 for everything you added.
It was definitely nice helping people out and especially nice when people thanked you for your time/effort but those moments seemed to be greatly outweighed by all the times that it felt like people didn't appreciate what you did/didn't think you did enough. IDK about you, but when I was a lead, it was like having another job and I don't think people realize that dom leads can plus in a TON of hours in a non-dom push week sometimes.
Oh God during the weeks leading up to an push and especially during a push I was on FR for 80+ hrs a week. I was jobless so its not like I had anything better to do but even when I was working I was sinking 40+ hours a week(10-15 on each day off plus 5-6 hours after or before work). And no one even thinks about it unless you tell them and even then they think it's sooo easy and you have to be doing something wrong or some crap. Like the job is legit herding cats. You are trying to get a very large group of people with wildly different personalities and living in completely different time zones with different schedules and skill sets to work together for a common goal and while giving them all the tools and resources(that are of course, specially tailored to the culture of that flight) they need to succed. Most business owners can't even do that effectively and we're a bunch of (mostly) young adults doing it with several hundred people at a time and are expected to do it pretty much flawlessly. Because of course if the flight fails, that's on you.
Don't get me wrong it was hella rewarding at times but fuck doing that again for a while. Especially when you can't make people happy, then your the devil incarnate and you need to step down even though you know perfectly well no one else wants to do it because if someone else did, they'd have made an effort to help.
And then when you do step down all these people come out of the woodwork and say how sad they are you're going and how different its going to be without you and its almost like a slap in the face.
so much truth in this... though i have to say, the skills i've learned from dom organising have come in rather handy for my actual job so that's a plus
Oh hell yeah. You bet I put all that crap I used as a Dom Leader on my resume. You just gotta make it sound fancy as hell and boom. Because of that I was able to move out of retail and into an Office setting which can be next to fucking impossible for some stupid reason considering how difficult emotionally, mentally and physically working in Retail actually is.
another +1 to this! as someone who has helped with dom tasks, the best reward comes from rallying a large group of wildly different people to work together towards the same goal. it's even better if/when that goal is achieved!!
i love bigger dom teams. work can be split, they can cheer each other, take turns at the hardest tasks and someone who's not so worn out can talk to the public. however that's obviously not always possible. it really sucks when only a couple people have to do all the work, as it's incredibly easy to get burnt out or have small slip ups that can shit your reputation almost instantly.
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(Anonymous) 2016-02-17 03:38 am (UTC)(link)Mad respect to any and all dom leads, though.
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(Anonymous) 2016-02-17 04:12 am (UTC)(link)That being said, I did have times where I felt very unappreciated and like people were taking advantage of all the work I was putting in and not recognizing how hard/time consuming it actually was.
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(Anonymous) 2016-02-17 05:13 am (UTC)(link)High fives and/or sympathetic back pats from a fellow ex-dom lead. And +1 for everything you added.
It was definitely nice helping people out and especially nice when people thanked you for your time/effort but those moments seemed to be greatly outweighed by all the times that it felt like people didn't appreciate what you did/didn't think you did enough. IDK about you, but when I was a lead, it was like having another job and I don't think people realize that dom leads can plus in a TON of hours in a non-dom push week sometimes.
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(Anonymous) 2016-02-17 07:33 am (UTC)(link)Don't get me wrong it was hella rewarding at times but fuck doing that again for a while. Especially when you can't make people happy, then your the devil incarnate and you need to step down even though you know perfectly well no one else wants to do it because if someone else did, they'd have made an effort to help.
And then when you do step down all these people come out of the woodwork and say how sad they are you're going and how different its going to be without you and its almost like a slap in the face.
That was pretty bitter sounding wow.
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(Anonymous) 2016-02-17 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)Oh hell yeah. You bet I put all that crap I used as a Dom Leader on my resume. You just gotta make it sound fancy as hell and boom. Because of that I was able to move out of retail and into an Office setting which can be next to fucking impossible for some stupid reason considering how difficult emotionally, mentally and physically working in Retail actually is.
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(Anonymous) 2016-02-17 05:43 am (UTC)(link)i love bigger dom teams. work can be split, they can cheer each other, take turns at the hardest tasks and someone who's not so worn out can talk to the public. however that's obviously not always possible. it really sucks when only a couple people have to do all the work, as it's incredibly easy to get burnt out or have small slip ups that can shit your reputation almost instantly.