Pros and Cons of Being a Supervisor

What are the advantages and disadvantages of becoming a supervisor? Here you'll find shortkeys of why you may decide to be a supervisor.

Pros of being a supervisor

Advantages are:

• New sense of job satisfaction. At the end of the day, job satisfaction is what will keep you coming back to work.
• Increase in income. Earning more money is possibly the biggest advantage of being promoted to management.
• The possibility of obtaining advanced degrees for free.

Cons of being a supervisor

The disadvantages of being a supervisor

• More work. Supervisors often have more, not less, work to do than their subordinates.
• More responsibility. Supervisors often have a higher level of responsibility than other types of workers.
• Different skills.
• Stuck in the middle.
• Dreaded tasks.