Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-05-04 (Sunday)

On 5/5/25 9:00 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On May 5, 2025 at 7:59:39 PM PDT, ""Ian J. Ball"" <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
 

On 5/5/25 7:18 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
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  Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
 

  Thanks to a combination of factors, primarily my job promotion at the
  start of the year,

    What's t[h]e new gig and what are the new responsibilities?

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Essentially, I now oversee all freshman classes in the department, which
means I also have to do things like hire TAs.

 Welcome to management. I hope you like it better than I did.

I did think about it. But the deciding factor was taking on this new role at my main job meant I could drop my second job (though, so far, it looks like an overall pay cut - that should hopefully change over summer and fall....) - a job that I was getting severely burned out on grading the lab reports for the last several years (I've worked the second job about 18 years!).
The new job means I can work from home more, and do weird hours for it, which I like overall.
But it's definitely been a hassle in some ways I wasn't totally prepared for...
I basically need to ride out this "new" job for 5 or 6 years, when the "magic boxes" start unlocking for me at age 60!  O:)

When I got promoted to supervisory special agent-- like the famous SSAs from
CRIMINAL MINDS-- suddenly everyone's personal problems became my problems to
solve. And unlike on CRIMINAL MINDS and every other TV show and movie, the
boss doesn't really continue to do the fun stuff in the field.** You sit
behind a desk and send the youts out to do that stuff and report back to you.
So I was basically a cop stuck behind a desk for the last four years of my
career.
 I should have just stayed a GS-13 and rode it out to the end.
 **(The only show that gets this right is Missy Peregrym's FBI. The SAC--
played by Alana de la Garza-- stays in the command center and directs the
agents in the field and the analysts in the field office. You never see her
out running her own ops or knocking on doors looking for suspects the way you
do on so many cop shows.)