IS there a perfect Job?

IS there a perfect Job?

When I was 16 I decided I wanted to do property management. I remember for the first time learning about the profession, seeing its usefulness, and deciding to enter it.

The problem was, I was 16. So I needed to wait. Shortly after that decision, a friend got a job as an apartment manager, and the two of us starting painting for different apartment complexes. I think it actually went to other way around, but that isn’t important. He got the job, and I was jealous. Actually, I was too young to have been eligible, but I was interested in his job. Free rent, decent salary, and his boss never came around. That was at least at first. When he started to mess up and get lazy he was harassed, and ultimately fired.

I started my first “legal” full time job at home depot, and later on to Wacker Siltornic. I loved the job at Home Depot, and to this day I am glad they fired me. I could have seen myself becoming a lifer there. Wacker was different. It was a job, and was suppose to be temporary. When the job became unbearable, I decided to quit. My supervisor at the time was a person I had a great deal of respect for. After I turned in almost 50 resumes for apartment manager jobs, I found someone to give me a shot. When I told that person that I was quitting he gave me some advice. He talked about how I was too nice, and had trouble telling people no.
Fast forward 8 years. I left a Vancouver company to move north to Seattle. My supervisor at that job, a person I used to like, but over the time I worked for him subsequently lost all respect for, and actually grew to despise…. Anyhow, that is another story.

When I quit he told me I would never be able to do the job I was taking, and that I was setting myself up to fail. It was one of the best pep talks a person can give. Nothing like someone you cannot stand telling you that you cannot do something that you want to do. First class motivation if you ask me.

He told me I would never be able to fire people, amongst other things.
I have a hard time telling people no. It is not a big secret. I like to do everything I can for someone, regardless of who they are or what they are doing. I have bent over backwards for people whom I know were lying to me. I help people that I have evicted all the time. I one time spent almost a whole 8 hour day calling charitable organizations to get help for a women who would love to have seen me dead. She actually spit at me one time. They helped her, and she never knew I found it. Funny thing is I was playing agents myself. I was evicting her, and trying to find a way for her to stop me from doing it. I succeeded at stopping myself. But I am off subject.

I have gotten to the point where I can be cold. I still do not like to do it. But the second boss, the one that said I would fail. Well, I am still here. I probably make as much if not more than he did. But, I still hate to fire people.
I love what I do. I planned my career up to this point step by step. And I have future plans also. But in the last 4 years I have had to fire more people then I want to remember. I hate to hire and fire people. I hate it more than anything I do for the mighty paycheck. I have had to fire people whom I have become friends with. I have had to fire people that were the only working member of their household. I cannot stress how much I hate it.

But, with this major negative, I know I could never not be the boss again. I am addicted to not being the little guy, or low man on the totem pole. There is no way I can go backwards. I just do not look forward to the years of hiring and firing people. I want to have my own company. I have a long time left in the workforce. I just do not look forward to all those lost employees.

To answer my own question, there isn’t a perfect job. But I do love my career choice enough to live with a few negative aspects of the job. I just wish everyone would just be better employees, and do everything perfectly. Well, maybe not perfect, but good enough that I wouldn’t have to fire them.