Real-Life Decision Making
As the fisheries manager of a large corporation, you have a generous budget
to invest in the latest technology. Plus, you have watched your initial investment
of company stock quadruple in value over a very short time. Life is good.
You have gained much knowledge and invaluable experience from this job.
Your friends call it the opportunity of a lifetime. Still, you can't
shake the feeling that life is passing quickly. That "dream project" of starting
and managing your own fish farm has been on hold much too long.
It is time to make a decision. You see two options: you can continue to
work at this large corporation, or you can quit and open your own fish farm.
If you choose the first option, you may continue to benefit from its extensive
facilities, even a fabulous cook at your beck and call! You will most likely
continue to have carte blanche authority to test and develop your pet programs
on the three acres worth of lakes and 10-acre hatchery located on some of
the most attractive property on the continent. The board of directors is even
talking about paying you a bonus towards the eventual development of your
fish farm. Plus, rumor has it that the boss is poised to offer you the prized
position of general manager.
If you choose the second option, all those support duties (secretarial,
hatchery) you're accustomed to delegating may now fall squarely on your
shoulders. Forty-hour weeks will probably grow to 75. You may have to make
compromises when it comes to buying the best technology has to offer. Yet
the possibility of pure joy is there -- seeing your "dream project" grow wings
and fly!
Which option will you choose?