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Make me choose: Prodigy or Proving Ground

I was actually thinking about @mylittleredgirl earlier because I took a bath this afternoon (though I did not have wine in the bath) and therefore vaguely thinking about SGA, but my brain is not working very well anymore.  Let’s see, what do I have about Sheppard and Weir?  Maybe a snip of a WIP I never wrote?  Here I dug this up from my gdoc titled “misc stuff”, it’s the fic I never wrote about John and Sam having a weird relationship where they’re both very aware of the hole left by Elizabeth.

"You miss her, don't you?"

"Hmm?"

"Dr. Weir.  You miss her."

John inclined his head toward Sam.  "You're doing great, Colonel.  They couldn't have picked anyone better for the job."

She sighed and shook her head.  "I wasn't fishing for compliments.  I know I'm capable of doing my job, I just--  I'm not her."

Admin life! My career used to be entirely administrative-assistant-y, and I enjoyed it quite a bit. Now I’m basically a staff manager for residential yoga teacher training programs, which is half prep work in an office, and half classroom time making sure everyone’s doing what they should do and nothing lights on fire. It’s really nice to get out from behind the desk, even though I almost passed out the first time I had to stick on a microphone and talk to a room full of students. I noticed Administrative Professionals Day is coming up and I’m a little put out about missing the annual making-my-boss-buy-me-a-coffee -because-they-forgot-about-administrative-professionals-day holiday. 

Previously I supported sales teams (new home sales; advertising) and then executives. I sing the praises of admin jobs a lot -- the entry-level is pretty unsustainable (how many 40 hour weeks of data entry can one person manage before their wrists and mind give out entirely), but once you get into the de-facto office manager level you basically get your own kingdom and there’s a lot of fun to be had with that. Once you get into executive-assistant level, the pay gets good! Plus, I can’t tell you how much I learned about business and leadership by being an innocuous note-taker tucked inside the boys-in-suits club, and then I switched to a non-profit I cared about and they actually Let Me Talk In Meetings, which was super rad and let me use all the knowledge I’d been squirreling away. 

Wait, like a “porn to make you cry in your cold shower” relationship, or do you just mean relationship in the more general/platonic sense?

Good luck in your interview!

Hahaha I am so happy to know you. And also yes, it’s pretty horrifying.