Where is everyone?

It starts in August, and I'll graduate in June. And than I'll come back here to be an Instructor again.

My agency sponsors this, so I competed against my peers to get selected, and I basically get a Masters for free and still get paid my salary to do it. Having a Masters is worth extra points on my promotion package, and this basically sets me up to be promoted to a senior level manager (GS-14 or higher) a lot sooner. Which for someone who is 38 would be considered on the fast track.
 
GreatWhiteNorth said:
It starts in August, and I'll graduate in June. And than I'll come back here to be an Instructor again.

My agency sponsors this, so I competed against my peers to get selected, and I basically get a Masters for free and still get paid my salary to do it. Having a Masters is worth extra points on my promotion package, and this basically sets me up to be promoted to a senior level manager (GS-14 or higher) a lot sooner. Which for someone who is 38 would be considered on the fast track.
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Sweet deal, that's awesome.
 
GreatWhiteNorth said:
It starts in August, and I'll graduate in June. And than I'll come back here to be an Instructor again.

My agency sponsors this, so I competed against my peers to get selected, and I basically get a Masters for free and still get paid my salary to do it. Having a Masters is worth extra points on my promotion package, and this basically sets me up to be promoted to a senior level manager (GS-14 or higher) a lot sooner. Which for someone who is 38 would be considered on the fast track.
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Love this. HELLLLLLLLLL yes. Congratulations, man. Cheers to you on this accomplishment.

Follow-up: "on the fast track" to what? Like, given this great news and such success to this point in the career, where do you want it to lead?
 
005 said:
Love this. HELLLLLLLLLL yes. Congratulations, man. Cheers to you on this accomplishment.

Follow-up: "on the fast track" to what? Like, given this great news and such success to this point in the career, where do you want it to lead?
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Ideally...I would like to promote here at the Academy to a GS-14 / Branch Chief position. Probably in the Basic Training Branch, if I had my preference. From there, I would have the ability to promote to Chief of Training (GS-15), and then if I have the right hooks, maybe even Deputy Assistant Director or Assistant Director.

Those last couple positions are very political, and I'm not much of a political animal, so those are unlikely. And making Chief around here is very much a timing thing, and its early to say if the timing will work out for me or not. If it doesn't, I could move on from here and try to be a Chief in a field office somewhere. But it would definitely be my preference to stay here if we can...my wife has a great job here, and we love the island. Can't ask for much more.
 
GreatWhiteNorth said:
It starts in August, and I'll graduate in June. And than I'll come back here to be an Instructor again.

My agency sponsors this, so I competed against my peers to get selected, and I basically get a Masters for free and still get paid my salary to do it. Having a Masters is worth extra points on my promotion package, and this basically sets me up to be promoted to a senior level manager (GS-14 or higher) a lot sooner. Which for someone who is 38 would be considered on the fast track.
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Nice, man. That's fantastic.
 
Love it, GWN. Related question, since we're already sort of on the topic of celebrating awesome news...

If you were targeting a nice adult drink to toast to a big-time life decision / achievement with a lifelong best friend, what would you target? Not out-of-this-world expensive, but higher-scale, what would you recommend?

Just to relax, sip on, reflect, look forward, etc.
 
Verc is probably going to have the perfect answer to that question...

If it was me and the wife celebrating, it would likely be champagne...but that's not something you probably want to go for with your BFF.

Since I'm a beer guy, I'm not the best person to answer that question in regards to mixed drinks...
 
I don't have a classy answer. Brown's answer would be my answer.

SN: Brown, the bar I frequent in Clarksville serves up a shot called a Grizz Bomb. It is incredible. Unsure what is in it though. They're half off when the Grizz play, which means I get at least two
 
005 said:
If you were targeting a nice adult drink to toast to a big-time life decision / achievement with a lifelong best friend, what would you target? Not out-of-this-world expensive, but higher-scale, what would you recommend?

Just to relax, sip on, reflect, look forward, etc.
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Quality single malt whiskey, served neat, and sipped a little at a time. It's solemn reflection in a glass. Weddings and funerals and anniversaries. Getting a new job or being laid off from one. Out in the bracing cold at Tennessee football games and in the stairwell at the hospital when my kids were born. We and our friends mark all the transitions of life, both happy and sad, by carving out a quiet moment to commemorate it with a toast with the best whiskey we've got around. Sometimes it's at home with special fussy glasses, sometimes it's a flask we pass around, and once or twice it's had to be just a bottle and plastic cups. But it's always good whiskey.
 
I think said this before, GWN, but congratulations -- both on the career opportunity and the wife who's willing to go along with it all. Get her to fly up for as many weekends as she'll put up with.
 
What are some quality single malt whiskeys?
And quality glasses? (feel like this has been discussed/linked before, maybe on the mothership)

"Solemn reflection in a glass," as you could obviously tell, is exactly what we have in mind. Feel it is necessary, and overdue.
 
Bourbon and other North American whiskies are not really to my taste, as I think they're too sweet. They might be more to yours though. I prefer Irish and Scotch -- Irish at the low to mid range price point -- by which I mean about $50-$60/bottle -- and Scotch at higher than that. (At the lower end, I think the smoothness of triple-distilled Irish makes it better than comparably priced Scotches, but as you move up the ladder eventually the flavor complexity of good Scotch wins out over the Irish smoothness. High end Irish is delicious but a little bland.) However, for this purpose about the quality of the whiskey is more symbolic than anything. I spent a night in a Fort Worth hotel room drinking Jameson white label with a friend the night before he got married because that's the best we could get, and I don't think either of us thought it was inadequate.

As far as glassware goes....any short, wide rocks glass will work perfectly fine. I have fussy little whiskey-specific glasses at home, but they're not necessary. What you want is a short glass that you can pour an inch or so of whiskey into, and which focuses the aroma directly up into your nose as you sip. You can make do in a pinch with anything, though.
 
And since I haven't recommended anything specific, I think the best all-purpose, all-around whiskey in the world, suitable for everything from regular Saturday night drinking to the birth of your child to the death of your father, might be Red Breast Irish whiskey, which can be had for somewhere around $40 a bottle. It somehow manages to appeal to everyone from non-regular-whiskey drinkers to Scotch snobs, without being inoffensively bland in a Johnny Walker kind of way. Highly recommended.
 
Vercingetorix said:
Bourbon and other North American whiskies are not really to my taste, as I think they're too sweet. They might be more to yours though. I prefer Irish and Scotch -- Irish at the low to mid range price point -- by which I mean about $50-$60/bottle -- and Scotch at higher than that. (At the lower end, I think the smoothness of triple-distilled Irish makes it better than comparably priced Scotches, but as you move up the ladder eventually the flavor complexity of good Scotch wins out over the Irish smoothness. High end Irish is delicious but a little bland.) However, for this purpose about the quality of the whiskey is more symbolic than anything. I spent a night in a Fort Worth hotel room drinking Jameson white label with a friend the night before he got married because that's the best we could get, and I don't think either of us thought it was inadequate.

As far as glassware goes....any short, wide rocks glass will work perfectly fine. I have fussy little whiskey-specific glasses at home, but they're not necessary. What you want is a short glass that you can pour an inch or so of whiskey into, and which focuses the aroma directly up into your nose as you sip. You can make do in a pinch with anything, though.
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*Bald eagles weep everywhere*
 
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