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Anyone here work for the Federal Government?
8/4/2010 | Me

Posted on 08/04/2010 3:09:42 PM PDT by paul544

Just wondering, as strange as it may seem, if there are any Freepers working for the Federal Gov't willing to answer some simple questions about it. I've been approached about the possibility of working for them and am weighing it.


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To: paul544
Isn't Federal Worker an oxymoron?
41 posted on 08/04/2010 4:27:18 PM PDT by mountainlion (concerned conservative.)
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To: ansel12

That makes as much sense as a lot of these projects people get paid mega bucks for.

I guess if I did not have a conscious I would put in for one too.


42 posted on 08/04/2010 4:35:31 PM PDT by valkyry1
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To: yetidog
It depends(like anything else)on what you make of it. I retired from the federal government having worked for NASA, Defense, Treasury and Interior retiring (early) as a GS-14 mid-level human resources type. And I gave a lot of thought to staying with it and almost left a couple of times. Looking back, I don't think my experience was much different from anyone in the private sector who works for a large inefficient and ponderous bureaucracy. Recognition and advancement is largely a matter of good work, personality, political (office politics) gamesmanship, and perceived as being smart. I like the mobility, friends and public service idea, but resented affirmative action, political appointeees and (generally negative) public perception of government employees. I also was in the field, as they say, not in Washington DC where the money would go further and the B.S. spread less thin.

OK...let me tell you the difference...I spent 7 years on active duty in the military and as you can see drove airplanes in Vietnam, occasionally got shot at by folks who weren't celebrating new years by shooting their guns in the air....any way after all that I got out of the service....went quietly home and resumed my life and eventually along with some "money" folks got in the Hotel development business.... I was the guy who identified the opportunity, put the group together and secured the financing to make it happen whereupon my partners designed, built and opened the facility (we did franchised Hilton's) and I joined in somewhat in the ongoing management....Sometimes capitalism don't provide for retirement of their participants.... My mistake...however... Every morning I wake up with the good feeling that 100's of people go to work and support their families because of my efforts over the years... I'm jealous...you're on the gummint mammary and I still have to make a few bucks trying to supplement my SS....to pay the bills...and not one of those folks that will draw a paycheck this Friday because of the Hotels that were built because of me know my name, let alone share their bounty with me.....but the gummint still requires me to contribute to pay your retirement....Now you know the difference....

43 posted on 08/04/2010 4:37:12 PM PDT by RVN Airplane Driver ("To be born into freedom is an accident; to die in freedom is an obligation..)
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To: paul544

I’m a military technician (MilTech) for the Army Reserve. Paid by the hour, turn in a timecard every day. I work on radios and night vision equipment, my coworkers are armorers and vehicle mechanics. Active membership in the drilling Reserves is a requirement which means I will hang it up soon when I am transferred to the retired reserves.

Good pay, working to keep up readiness, I and everyone I work with has been deployed. The boss is OK, the higher ups are mostly timeservers. I’m supporting soldiers and their equipment for the GWOT mission, and that makes it worthwhile.


44 posted on 08/04/2010 4:52:06 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("O Muslim! My bullets are dipped in pig grease!")
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To: skr

You know the subject, if you are willing to telecommute, I might put you down for few hundred grand or even a lot more if you do the entire report, I don’t really like writing and heavy work stuff.


45 posted on 08/04/2010 4:53:57 PM PDT by ansel12 (Mitt: "I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush")
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To: mo
Just make sure you’re a registered Democrat....and that your local Congresscritter (D) understands his retirement acco...oops I mean “campaign fund” will get his 25% cut....and you MIGHT be surprised at what happens....

You just brought up a possible hitch, my Congressman is Duncan D. Hunter.

46 posted on 08/04/2010 5:00:30 PM PDT by ansel12 (Mitt: "I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush")
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47 posted on 08/04/2010 5:07:24 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: paul544
If you take the job with the feds, you will be ostracized for living on the public dole for the rest of your life.

I'm not kidding!

48 posted on 08/04/2010 5:13:07 PM PDT by Randy Larsen ( BTW, If I offend you! Please let me know, I may want to offend you again!(FR #1690))
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To: RVN Airplane Driver

You are relating a difference in life experience that is hardly germane to the question asked by the original poster. I sense a personalized anger which is never a good thing. I too am a AF Vietnam era vet and would not mention that fact except you use it as something that supposedly separates (and elevates?) your background as distinctive (and better?) than my own. You do not know me; I have worked outside of government both previous to and after retirement. Fortunately, none of my employmnent experiences have given me a perspective that somehow I was being put up upon to pay for the retirement of another or that anyone I have ever met was a lesser person on the basis of the career path they followed.


49 posted on 08/04/2010 5:24:43 PM PDT by yetidog
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To: PLMerite

Thanks to all for your replies... Except SkyPilot.

First question I have is whether personal beliefs ever impacted your ability to do your job if the agency is being run, at the top, by people you opposed politically. I’m afraid I’d get there and have a major problem knowing I ultimately work for people I don’t believe in.


50 posted on 08/04/2010 5:50:47 PM PDT by paul544
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To: yetidog
I too am a AF Vietnam era vet and would not mention that fact except you use it as something that supposedly separates (and elevates?) your background as distinctive (and better?) than my own.

So you are a AF Vietnam era vet...my dog stayed home and licked himself and was a Vietnam era dog...You and my dog have the same credibility,,which is zero... in making statements like you did...you are not even a REMF..which of course you don't know what that is.... I think you need to throttle back and STFU.....

51 posted on 08/04/2010 5:59:42 PM PDT by RVN Airplane Driver ("To be born into freedom is an accident; to die in freedom is an obligation..)
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To: paul544

I think it would depend on the agency or department. Some, you can just tell by the title of the agency, would be more leftist than others. Some are known to be.

Some have to be neutral by their mandate.


52 posted on 08/04/2010 6:01:20 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: ansel12

If you’ll pay the taxes, count me in!

I never was much of a bargainer.


53 posted on 08/04/2010 6:07:58 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: paul544
I've been told I can't tell you what I do.
54 posted on 08/04/2010 6:16:44 PM PDT by McGruff (How's that Hopey Changey thingy workin for ya?)
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To: RVN Airplane Driver

“I think you need to throttle back and STFU.....”

Well put.


55 posted on 08/04/2010 6:30:59 PM PDT by yetidog
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To: yetidog

I did four years active in the USAF, pre- and during the buildup to Vietnam. Signed on with a large organization at Fort Meade and spent 33 years as a mostly overseas-deployed civilian working with the military. Retired as a GS-14. Good work, totally apolitical. Agency was always directed by a 3-star officer. I found it mostly rewarding and I think the taxpayers got their money’s worth. I “contributed” a lot of unpaid overtime as well.


56 posted on 08/04/2010 7:10:38 PM PDT by Ax
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To: paul544
Thanks to all for your replies... Except SkyPilot.

You troll with vanity posts....and random surveys. Thanks to everyone also, except you.

What is your next post? Who drives a Toyota?

How about who uses chap stick?

57 posted on 08/05/2010 3:35:24 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: paul544

If you’re talking civilian work force, you’ve got it made. You’ll get to play solitaire on your computer for 20 years and retire with a nice fat pension. 5% of the workforce do 95% of the work, so drones are aplenty.


58 posted on 08/05/2010 3:43:39 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
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To: paul544
I work for that much hated behemoth, Homeland Security.

There is a small group of conservatives here in my office. We have secret handshakes and everything.

I haven't had any political issues (other than being bombarded with chatty spam emails from Big Sis on a regular basis, and having to tolerate Obama's smiling face on the DHS home page.)

Although I'm surrounded by liberals, nobody has said anything about my radio being tuned to Rush Limbaugh and Christian music. Maybe I'm lucky. Frankly, although you'll catch holy hell for it from the government employee haters, you can't beat the security. When you look at the big picture, annoyances like liberal coworkers can be overlooked.

59 posted on 08/05/2010 1:27:07 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (When life gives you lemons, throw them back and demand chocolate.)
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To: SkyPilot

How about how many aholes feel the need to occupy their otherwise worthless lives by commenting on threads that have nothing to do with them? But you already know you occupy that spot.


60 posted on 08/05/2010 10:01:38 PM PDT by paul544
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