Advice for starting out in my first permanent post

[MassiveTit]

So, you held my hand through the PhD submission, the viva and now I was wondering if you had advice on my first post starting in the next few weeks. I have a fair amount of teaching experience (and, indeed, wangled a SL position off the back of it) and I have some collaborative research on the go at the moment so I am not starting from a standstill but I was wondering what your advice would be especially with regards to academic service with which I have less experience.
I tend to run at things full pelt but a few people have suggested I hold back so expectations are low...
Anyway, any thoughts more than welcome. It's a post 92 and I am in social sciences if that helps...

[parietal]

For service, it can help to find out what service roles exist in your Dept (e.g. admissions / exams officer / ethics / research committee etc). Then you can volunteer for the one that interests you in order to avoid being lumbered with a difficult one.

If you are asked to take on a service role that you don't like, ask if there is a term limit. e.g. Agree to serve 4 years on the ethics committee so that you can rotate off it and do something else later.

To keep your own research going, try to get a PhD student. Or failing that, a good MSc student or two who can do the donkey-work of the research so that you can keep up momentum with papers etc.