Mule

Everyone wants authority. Taking responsibility is more important.  It's our gut reaction to walk into a meeting/work place/internet forum and want to be the one that everyone nods their heads to, but being the guy who says, " I'll take care of it" to the job that would most likely fail, the gross one, the one no one cares about or what kick you up a rung... not so fast. I don't go on internet forums. Anymore. I did.  Once, as a youthful enthusiast, I asked the Internets about selling $500 guitars so customers would pay for materials and I would continue to learn.  It turned into a firefight.  I was berated by a well known luthier as insulting the craft and the people who did it.  The pile on by random internet jockeys fed the flames.  The second time I went on a forum I had mentioned as an aside about recarving a neck that was so big you couldn't fit a capo around it.  The pile on began again, because clearly I had destroyed the guitar.  At that point I had carved around 600 necks. Which, I imagine, is more necks than almost anyone has carved. People want authority, but don't want to get dirty.  Do the dirty work. Do good work for it's own sake.   The things you should do usually have some element that you don't want to do, are anxious about, and make you think a bit.   Find that stuff, then speak up and take care of it.