{"id":2821,"date":"2008-12-07T22:35:15","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T03:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=2821"},"modified":"2008-12-07T22:35:15","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T03:35:15","slug":"learning-to-delegate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=2821","title":{"rendered":"Learning to delegate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are people who were born to delegate, and it shows. There are people who delegate, and it&#8217;s because they haven&#8217;t the ability to do the jobs they delegate.  And then there are people like me. <\/p>\n<p>See, I grew up with a father who taught me this lesson: Never send a man to do a job you&#8217;re afraid to do, or too  lazy to do, or you find distasteful. <\/p>\n<p>SO all my life, when there was something nasty to do, or something annoying that needed done, I never even said a thing, I just did it. It was hard developing this habit, but i did, and now it&#8217;s hard to stop. Consequently, I&#8217;ve slung a lot of shit. Gutted a lot of hogs. Changed a lot of brakes. Crawled on my hands and knees through tons of hot steaming coal to fix recalcitrant machinery. <\/p>\n<p>So one of the hardest things for me to do, is to send someone to a tough job. THis is as true of mmy job as it is my country. I hate that young kids are defending us, and I wish I could go myself, but I have other responsibilities. One of them is to train my replacement. <\/p>\n<p>Because- as most who know me understand- there are not a lot of people like me, and we are in pretty high demand. Not many want to put up with the abuse.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m having to learn to delegate, and it galls me, because I&#8217;m never as happy with a job that I do not do, but it&#8217;s time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are people who were born to delegate, and it shows. There are people who delegate, and it&#8217;s because they haven&#8217;t the ability to do the jobs they delegate. And then there are people like me. See, I grew up with a father who taught me this lesson: Never send a man to do a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}