Well there is more than one company involved in our defense industry, and there are other non-defense industry engineering jobs out there where your skills would be useful. Sounds to me like you’d rather just stay where you are and complain about your present condition and hope and pray that enough people above you die so that you can finally move up. It’s really hard for me to feel sorry for you. You are not powerless. Either move onto something bigger and better or stay where you are and quit your complaining. Your attitude sucks. It probably shows in your work. Fix it or be miserable while you decrease your chances of ever moving up in your field. If you really want to stay where you are, accept the fact that it is not likely that you will move up anytime in the near future and live with it. Don’t complain about it. Nobody wants to work with a whiner. Those in charge don’t want to promote people with bad attitudes. Life’s hard enough without having to work with jerks and whiners. Improve your attitude and your life will be better all around. You’ll be happier in your work, your coworkers will find you a better person to work with, and those above you will be more likely to pick you for the better slots when they open up.
Did you read any of my previous posts? How about the OPM paper I posted about the problem? Do you even understand what the issue is in DoD? Have you ever worked in DoD? Can you even spell DoD?
I hope you feel better after insulting me, as many others have on this thread.
The only time you can get freepers on an anti-defense rant is when you mention the defense industry is top-loaded with boomers and the "younger" workers are in their 40's--It's hard to stay motivated to work in it as an industry
What have you done for your country lately? (other than bitch at me, I suppose.)
Don't worry, I'll keep working to build stuff to protect your ass while you keep giving me grief for staying in that industry.