Decisions, decisions

[robinturner]

I've spent much of the last week trying to decide whether to apply for a new post. In-faculty English teaching is being reorganised, combining all the vairous depratments that currently handle it into one big department (called the Faculty Academic English Program) then splitting that up into units according to which faculty they work with. This means that my current unit (the Faculty Academic Support Team), which currently works with Politics, International Relations and Archaeology students, will lose Archaeology and gain Economics, becoming FAE-FEASS (hard to pronounce, but more logical). It also means that the post of unit head will be up for grabs.

The problem is that very few people want to grab it, which means that various colleagues have been nudging me in that direction. I'm not so sure I want the job, partly because if I wait patiently, an alternative post (a sort of head of IT for the English departments) may materialise in September.

Advantages

• More varied work
• A chance to influence university policy
• Helping solve people's problems
• Fewer papers to grade
• More money

Disadvantages

• It's pretty much a 9-5 job - no more LJ-ing at four a.m. because I don't have to get up till mid-day
• Less time to work on computer stuff
• Paperwork
• More people on my case


I put in my application anyway - I can always wimp out at the last moment.