Trial by Fire

Learning to lead the hard way

Photo by Sage Friedman on Unsplash

“Desmond, since Laurie got transferred to Big Market, we have an opening for an Assistant Manager, what do you think about taking the position? You would get a dollar raise, but you would have to work at least 48 hours a week.”

My manager, Jeff, and I were in the office. I had been working as a store clerk for less than 3 months and they wanted to promote me to…