What is the hardest part about being a first year manager?

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I feel like I do the same work, it’s just that I have more of it and am expected to run the deal end to end without much oversight (or SA help unfortunately). But I’m in MM so i imagine it’s different at bigger firms.

I do enjoy the freedom to call the shots to a certain extent.

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I’ve found bidder support is generally handled by senior members of the team (PPMD / Director) who leverage rest of the team to gather answers. Managers should be running the process day to day / start to finish with directors doing some more of the client handling

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Being staffed on deals with seniors who don’t care at all or are incompetent. You have a run of some great reports going off and then get staffed with a senior who does really sloppy work and the difficulty increase when you’re supposed to be managing a few deals at once is high

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How bad was that really sloppy work?

The dementors

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Also serving as your teams lead senior and associate, and your director wanting you to also play junior director for them all while being the manager on the deal

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Adapting to providing oversight

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