Making the move from creative to management – no matter what your practice – can be harder than you think. Verity Johnson looks into what to do when the fun is replaced by forms.
Jumping into a management role needn’t quash your creativity. Image: Shutterstock.
In my head, I’d always imagined being a boss was glamorous.
And yet I soon realised that’s basically 80% of being a boss – doing sweaty, sweary, silly stuff that no one wants to do but needs to be done.Â
I went from MC and cabaret performer, to running a burlesque club in a year. One minute I was bouncing around gigs like a slightly tipsy pinball. The next I was the first in, last out, and missing the after party because I needed to pick up disused elastoplasts that punters had so graciously stuffed into our booth seating.
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