ekaterina wrote: ↑Wed Aug 16, 2023 4:54 pm
I have a question for you, gentlemen: how big of a time commitment was being headmin? Did it take a heavy toll on other aspects of your life?
It's less the time commitments in a bubble and more how the time commitments present themselves.
You have a 6 month term. For the entire term:
You have a mix of stuff that's on your time schedule; what you want to do.
You have a mix of stuff that's on your team's schedule; what your term wants to do collectively.
You have a mix of stuff that's on other people's schedules; what other people want you to do.
You have a mix of stuff that requires immediate attention; what you have to do right now.
And you have a mix of stuff that needs doing and has no immediate timescale, but if you delay it too much the opportunity passes; random events during your headmin term.
Many times I'd lose entire evenings investigating and responding to ban appeals and figuring out policy. Last week I was up until 4am mentoring a trial admin through a ticket. I've lost entire weekends to internal affairs investigations. On any usual day I'll get between 5-10 pings on Discord split between the headmin role and the "you're an online headmin, help me" individual pings. You also get all sorts of DMs of people with problems too.
Some weeks you'll basically do nothing, and some weeks you'll lost a sizable portion of your free time to headmin work. For 6 months.
This term was particularly draining for me because I did a lot of drafting of our responses as everyone else was busy, so I lost a lot of free time to it.
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