As for your point of the job being self induced, thanks for that. It alleviates some of the stress I’ve been having. It’s not about the deadlines as I’m good on that, it’s about noticing supervisors milking agents for their own advantage of trying to get a good performance eval. I wish I could give examples but I don’t want to identify any group/person specifically. I didn’t notice much of a turnover in this job as most of the co-workers that I work with are old and have no where else to go but recently I’ve noticed more and more people are gone. I’ve known a few people that have developed health issues from this job.
I too have no interest in becoming a SAC and while yes they put up with a crappy area chief (ours actually is), they aren’t running last minute leads, scheduling calls, going to get records. I mean out of a 8-10 hour day, I picture them working 2-3 hours at most by checking emails and assigning work, makes me wonder what they do the rest of the time.