Learning the Country and the “Why” Behind the Work
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I’m thankful to be surrounded with kind and knowledgeable people. Working here is already giving me new ideas and challenging my paradigms of management. One of those is that you need to have equipment for every type of job, the fact is, it is economical to maintain lower overhead costs where you can, it may not make sense to buy haying equipment if your lease may be up in several years, just hire it done, and so on.
We were pretty busy up here this week. We have been bouncing around quite a bit, getting different groups doctored and moved when it’s time to go. Point being, I got to learn the country pretty quickly. I get to work dependent on what needs to get done, whether it be laying a cow down to throw her collar back on or putting up fence. We got shoes on some horses that needed it.
This can be applied to management as well, it has a simple base, seeing a goal, and solving the problems to maintain on the tracks to that. Conversations with my boss have been really beneficial because they are a break from the outside perspective and reveal the why. Growing up on a family place I never really cared to ask the why, but that is an important question.
I am learning that to be good help I need to see the big picture from top down.
Next week I will be trying to figure out how to approach decisions with this approach instead of just going with what I know.
“Ask the former generation and find out what their ancestors learned, for we were born only yesterday and know nothing, and our days on earth are but a shadow.” Job 8:8-9
Submitted by: Jace_Miller
Edits by: GrowinG Internship Team
