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Do you relish admin work, committee work, attending meetings, dealing with difficult personnel issues, the prospect of inheriting your “unpleasant tasks”, engaging in work place politics with the bigger players, etc.
Or…
Are you a techie at heart who loves playing around with equipment and performing “real” work transactions as opposed to perhaps spending your energy looking good, posturing and pleasing managers further up the food chain?
If you can see yourself succeeding in the new position and are stimulated by that vision and the potential challenges, then it is worth considering. However, you mentioned something about “full-time employment fairly late in life” – does this (possibly?) indicate to you that as you have not made a bid for management type roles earlier in your career, these types of roles might not be in your blood? What is the management culture like?
Are you attracted to the challenges of the new role in both heart and mind, with a passion, or just because it is there?
It might be worth considering any replies you receive from your post as potential interview questions and attempt to answer them on that basis, using the key selection criteria in the position description?
Anyhow, good luck and best wishes in whatever course of action you decide upon, I’m sure either career can be worthy and stimulating from any kind of self review.
Cheers
Dennis
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