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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-05-04 (Sunday)
Date: Mon, 5 May 2025 21:34:14 -0700
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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:
>>
>>>   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?
>>
>> 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.)