Posted on 01/14/2007 8:47:45 AM PST by Sen Jack S. Fogbound
WASHINGTON — The federal government is targeting millions of retiring to replace the estimated one-half of their colleagues eligible to retire from federal service in the next few years, according to the Partnership for Public Service, an advocacy organization for federal careers.
Maryland retirees, in particular, are prime candidates for the second career push because of their proximity to the many federal agencies with homes in both Washington and Maryland.
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Thank you. I happen to be temporarily unemployed so I think I will look into this........
Good for you and congrats on the new job!
I'll keep my fingers crossed for you. I have heard that Homeland Security needs people on a temporary basis (up to a year of employment) for disaster reliefs. People are likely to be sent anywhere. Start at USA jobs.com and good luck.
Gen-X career progression:
Graduate College
out of work
Get hired, but not in your field
Layed off
Stop Gap job at 'Start-up' company
Company goes bankrupt.
out of work.
Boomers call you 'slacker'
Luck out and get job in your field.
Work for boomer managers.
Still in Jr. position at 40--still called 'kid'.
Congratulations, you're president of the company! They didn't hire anyone under 40 for 10 years and now they're all dead or retired!
Now figure out how to pay for their retirement and increasing health care benefits....
Everytime I read this article it pisses me off more.
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A good friend of mine has gone through all the TSA hoops including interview in Nevada, where he probably will be employed.
Tough choice to make after one has spend a lifetime here in Michigan........BUT, you gotta do what ya gotta do and here in S.E. Michigan decent jobs are few and far inbetween........
Reporters I wanted to use were not contractual and would not sign agreements with those who were awarded the contract. They did not want to increase their rates to pay the bid-winners their cut. Thus, I could not use them. I was required to use the higher cost service. It is this type of stuff that irks me. This is the manner in which these scam artists rape government. Think of the number of instances a reporter is needed in State Government and then think the contract was awarded to a few whose business was comprised of one or two self-emloyed reporters. These self-employed reporters apparently knew other free-lance reporters would have to come to them in order to keep the business. The award winners didn't even have to employ those doing the work. You would think contractual work would be cheaper. That is not necessarily true. It would seem this is a sure way to line your pockets if you know how to work the system.
Michigan also farms out to other states various services because they claim they can get the work done cheaper. At the same time they want the cheapest rate I cannot buy a pack of cigarettes out-of-state because they are cheaper. I am required to pay the tax. Michigan's budget is in such peril there is talk of adding fees to services. They already have a sales tax. I say, bring the government work back to the State and let the people pay taxes. Dancing all around the issues makes me mad.
All this competition regarding cost seems to me to be good only for government and/or business but it is not good for the citizen anymore (if it ever was). I am sick of the double-talk, lack of decency and growing number of self-serving politicians and yes some employers. In general, as you say corruption AT ALL LEVELS. It is a mindset and flows downward right through management. I respect employers for the gamble they take which presumably provides jobs to others but I also don't know of a single employer that does not skim. Is this the honorable employer that wants cheap labor? Isn't honor also honesty?
Any employer who complains he is getting dummies and cannot find good employees I believe has a management problem that is exposed within the community. I suggest, the good employees are going somewhere else. If the employer treats the employee as if they have no brains, they have no judgment, and employees are easy come easy go (have no value), why should an employee give their all and be loyal. Why would the employer expect what he is not willing to give? In other words, if cheap is what the employer wants he deserves what he gets.
If the public thinks government workers are grifters wait till they really make crappy wages. Every citizen uses government services. If the general public expects government to lower their pay standards (of course they understand this will happen only at the worker level) they deserve what they will get. Long lines at recreational State Parks and the Secretary of State's office for starters. LOL!
If I were younger and not banged up anymore I would apply.
I'm 56 and had almost 35 years with my company. I say "temporarily unemployed" because i am going to do whatever i can to become employed again.........
Or they hired the educated people with a work ethic and then the incompetent long-time managers ran out the competent workers as scapegoats to cover their own incompetence.
Nah. The longer a lot of them, the better. A LOT of them need help paying for their own retirement. Here's the ugly truth...it was never realistic to have the whole country retire at 55 or 60 and then live to be 90. Yes, the Democrats killed Social Security by bleeding it dry. Doesn't mean I want my parents or their friends eating dog food in 20 years when the darn thing collapses. A LOT of them aren't prepared. So, a lot of them are basically gonna have no choice but to work a few extra years. The boomers are in the same boat the Xers are in, only maybe worse. They thought Social Security would be there. At least we know Lyndon Johnson killed it 30 years ago by bleeding it dry to buy lib votes and it's not gonna be there and know to not count on it. It's gonna go belly up before they're all pushing up daisies since our government seems to have no real interest in fixing it.
It's not my fault they were improvident Summer of Love dopes, but I'll be paying for it like it was my fault....
I'll remind the next old lady in the San Jose airport who shouts at me for wearing an "Army" t-shirt that I'm paying for her retirement.
No, I'm just north of Detroit. However, I have a friend in the building trades who moved (found an apartment) to Shreveport, LA to find work there and he comes home to his wife every couple weeks or so........He says they are building like crazy there.
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