You started out at UB as a member of the math faculty. My experience is that research in mathematics is a lonely business. It involves long hours of solitary study and thought. I think I would have been a more successful research mathematician if I had been less dependent for my emotional well-being on social contact. Administration, on the other hand, is an intensely social activity.
Administrators make a living by going to meetings.
In that way, they resemble teachers. But, by and large, teachers are in control of what happens in their classrooms. At least that is true of the old-fashioned pedagogical style that I have always practiced. Administrators are never in control of anything. When I used to teach, I would work out in August what material I would present in November.