The Middle of Middle Management

We'll, we'll see how it turns out.

So the first section is cleverly titled Stuck in the Middle.

I went with that because I've been in some version of middle management basically for the last 23 years, which is either an impressive amount of professional seasoning-

[laughs]

... or it's a sign I should have asked better questions a long time ago.

Yeah.

Wow.

But either way, I go, 2003, that's when I got to this.

Even in the office where I sat, I physically was in the middle.

Mm.

Yeah.

Two owners had, like, their desk and, and they sat in one space, and then there was me in between them, and then the studio where all the other people worked.

Not only was I figuratively middle management, I was physically [laughs] middle, yes.

In the middle.

Dividing line, yeah.

Yes.

So and that's a long time.

Think about that.

That's 23 years.

That's nuts.

So that means I started, how old would I have been? Whatever, I can't do math.

That's-

Long time ago.

[laughs] So the point of that is since I've spent a large portion of my career occupying that weird place between the people setting direction and the people that take that direction, I have some opinions about it, and I have some thin spots, and I have some thick spots to how my behavior might be as a result of being in that spot for as long as I've been in.

Yeah.