I spose the biggest thing happening to me is I just turned twenty. An hour ago it was yesterday, but now it's two days ago. So I'm already twenty and two days old. I don't feel much different. People still look at me like a punk kid, even though I try to look everyone in the eye and smile and hold doors open and say my "please" and "thank you"s. But I guess the general populous of middle aged to elderlies has already made up their minds about me and it's not really up to me to change that.
But it gets frustrating because, for example, I'm starting a youth center. And I say I am because I'm the manager.
I'm the one who does the paperwork, who talks to everybody, who does everything. Nothing happens that I don't know about.
But for some reason, the guy that takes care of the building that we want to rent (the landlords brother) doesn't seem to take me seriously. ie he'll ask me a question like "how do you plan on making money" and i'll go on to answer him and he'll blatantly interrupt me midsentence by turning to someone older and asking them the same question. I don't think he understands that these people in turn answer to me as far as the youth center is concerned. So if I say we're making money by means a and b, that's how we make money. And Seth or Heidi, or whoever other person that's over thirty that you ask will tell you the same thing.
Maybe he's just incapable of wrapping his head around the fact that I'm trying to accomplish more with my twenty years of experience than he's accomplished in his lifetime. I spose that's not up to me to say, I don't really know him THAT well, but from what I've experienced it's the truth. And I know I'll feel bad for speaking so poorly of him later, but I'm really irritated now.
And I don't want to give anyone the impression that I think I'm awesome for being mr. bossman. I actually rely on my elders a lot, because I'm still just a lost little kid and I have no idea what I'm doing and without them I wouldn't have even gotten my foot in the door.
But the fact remains that this whole thing is MY vision, and they even tell him that. They even tell him that whatever I say is what goes, but he still doesn't understand that and he still can't take me seriously.
Luckily, he actually has literally no power over us once we actually get the building. So I can go over his head and go straight to the landlord on just about anything. And what's kind of sad is the landlord's secretary pam (a secretary named pam, ha) said "tony's sole purpose is to lock and unlock the door. don't listen to anything he says. you come to me with questions."
But he still seems to think that I need to wait for eight hours for him to show up to our meeting. Which I did.
And when he shows up eight hours late he says "why didn't you call me?"
And I say "I shouldn't have to call you more than I already did. I left you a message. Let's just get the thing done and get out of here."
I'm not sure how well I'll do in the business world.
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