I took the department chair, thinking I could protect what mattered. Now my days are budgets and faculty feuds and meetings that never end. The research and the teaching I gave my whole life to sit in the margins of a calendar that belongs to everyone but me.
More people experience this than they realize.
You mediate budgets and politics now instead of the research and teaching you devoted your life to.
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.