Disgusting chart if those numbers are accurate
There are some very good reasons to make government a career. It certainly worked for me!
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I once worked with an Armenian who grew up in Iran when the Shah was in power. When he left for America he said he had to go to 24 different desks to get his papers cleared. At the 24th desk, the guy looked it over, added another rubber stamp and pointed to a young guy at desk #25. The guy there carefully read the papers, then neatly folded them three times, inserted them into an envelope, returned them and pointed to an exit, saying “You are done.”
The Armenian explained to me that was the difference between America and much of the rest of the world. In Iran, everybody that could went to college, but since there were no jobs, they ended up in government. In that last case above, folding papers in three was a separate job.
I wonder how soon we’ll hear graduates proudly claim, “I’ve got a government job folding documents!”
I’m bookmarking that site. We have one getting BS in Economics in May of 2011, and another getting a PhD in Computer Science at the end of 2011.