rabbis and bagmen
I don't know if these roles only exist in partnerships, but I have one of them - bagman.
Your rabbi is the man who makes you a partner - brings you up, introduces you to the right guys, gives you the right projects, and visibility, so that when he sponsors you everyone who matters knows who you are. Your bagman is your lieutenant (looked it up and it's clearly the right word since the bagman gets to take your place in battle so you don't have to die...), and if you're anybody around here you have one. If you're very important your bagman is on a tour of duty and you're part of his "make partner" plan (visibility and the right projects part). Also, the tour starts you on your relo journey - partners here expect to move whenever and wherever they're sent. Like Kansas City. Yet another reason why this place is like academia - and yet another reason why i do not want to be a partner.
Is there a pattern to these aspects of work? The need to demonstrate committment to the effort by being willing to move anywhere they want you to? The mentoring and the grunt work required to make it to partner/tenure? The importance of fictive kin and lineage?
Your rabbi is the man who makes you a partner - brings you up, introduces you to the right guys, gives you the right projects, and visibility, so that when he sponsors you everyone who matters knows who you are. Your bagman is your lieutenant (looked it up and it's clearly the right word since the bagman gets to take your place in battle so you don't have to die...), and if you're anybody around here you have one. If you're very important your bagman is on a tour of duty and you're part of his "make partner" plan (visibility and the right projects part). Also, the tour starts you on your relo journey - partners here expect to move whenever and wherever they're sent. Like Kansas City. Yet another reason why this place is like academia - and yet another reason why i do not want to be a partner.
Is there a pattern to these aspects of work? The need to demonstrate committment to the effort by being willing to move anywhere they want you to? The mentoring and the grunt work required to make it to partner/tenure? The importance of fictive kin and lineage?
posted by fend for yourself at 4:52 PM
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I was just going to ask whether you have suddenly gotten interested in making partner; luckily I kept reading. Off to make Hanukkah presents for grandmothers at www.photostamps.com. One will truly appreciate it, and the other, hopefully, will find it campy...
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