[TheThinkTank] full-timers/directors/project coordinators: how'sthe job treating you?

[Adam Weber]

Friends,

While you might not be able to "imagine it any other way" many of your
comrades in the bicycle community can and do. Perhaps consider a
collective form of organizing where responsibilities, anxieties, and
rewards are shared equally. Taking the role of "director" and weeping
over your martyrdom is not an attractive quality. Hierarchy is not our
friend, whether it rides a bike or drives a car.

Adam (Chicago)

On Nov 20, 2007 10:06 AM, R.  Dugas/Vélogik/Carrefour jeunesse emploi
Saint-Laurent <velogik1 at cjestlaurent.org> wrote:
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> Very busy, very exciting, lots of good opportunities to develop stuff and
> fascinating people to work with. I've been doing this for 4 years now and
> can't imagine it any other way.
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> I think it's the same in other organizations related to community enterprise
> because we tend to believe in what we do and therefore really invest
> ourselves in our dreams working.
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> And hiring staff will not make you have less of a workload, quiter the
> contrary in my experience.
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> richard
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> [mailto:thethinktank-bounces at bikecollectives.org] De la part de rachael
> spiewak
>  Envoyé : 20 novembre 2007 09:32
>  À : The Think Tank
>  Objet : [TheThinkTank] full-timers/directors/project coordinators: how'sthe
> job treating you?
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> since taking on directing sopo full time, i've come to find that this job is
> all kinds of intense.  wonderful, but exhausting.  i'm wondering.. how much
> if it is me and how much of it is this job?  is it unique to community bike
> shops, or is it like this for other kinds of organizations?  or is it more
> about the organization being a start-up?  for the folks in a similar
> position: what's your day like?  hanging in there?
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>  thanks!
>  rachael
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